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The Curtain : An Essay In Seven Parts

  • The Curtain : An Essay In Seven Parts
  • Title

    • Rideau. English
  • Attribution

    Milan Kundera ; translated from the French by Linda Asher
  • Publication Details

    Book, 1st ed, HarperCollins Publishers, 2006
  • Availability

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  PN49 .K8613 2006  AVAILABLE

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  • Description

    “A magic curtain, woven of legends, hung before the world,” writes Milan Kundera in The Curtain, his fascinating new book on the art of the novel. Too often, he suggests, a novel is thought about only within the confines of the language and nation of its origin, when in fact the novel’s development has always occurred across borders: Laurence Sterne learned from Rabelais, Henry Fielding from Cervantes, Joyce from Flaubert, Garc (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
  • Author

  • Subject

  • Contents

    • The consciousness of continuity
    • Die Weltliteratur
    • Getting into the soul of things
    • What is a novelist?
    • Aesthetics and existence
    • The torn curtain
    • The novel, memory, forgetting
  • ISBN

    • 0060841869
    • 9780060841867
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