false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167953547m/28637.jpg 28637 25 <blockquote>Every novelist's work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of what the novel is. I have tried to express here the idea of the novel that is inherent in my own novels.<br> -- Milan Kundera</blockquote> <p>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. </p> <p>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.</p> 3424608 book 1988 The Art of the Novel (Perennial Classics) total:750|5:173|4:302|3:211|2:55|1:9| 750 2825 1150 33 5 3 false false Mon Apr 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 21 13:25:24 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 21 13:28:29 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 07 10:49:56 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 19 10:20:12 -0800 2007 more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Sep 18 14:45:34 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 18 14:48:36 -0700 2007 The Art of the Novel. There are lots of little interesting things in it, but I’ll just mention a couple that caught my attention.

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