The Art of the Novel
Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Musil. He is especially penetrating on Hermann Broch, and his exploration of the world of Kafka's novels vividly reveals the comic terror of Kafka's...
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Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Musil. He is especially penetrating on Hermann Broch, and his exploration of the world of Kafka's novels vividly reveals the comic terror of Kafka's bureaucratized universe. Kundera's discussion of his own work includes his views on the role of historical events in fiction, the meaning of action, and the creation of character in the post-psychological novel.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060093747 (0060093749)
ASIN: 60093749
Publish date: April 1st 2003
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
Language,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Literary Fiction,
Philosophy,
France,
Theory,
Czech Literature
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