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I've found this book a continued and useful resource in analyzing and evaluating the novels I read and those I'm writing. Kundera's differentiation between the lyrical and the epic lovers has been a fruitful area of inquiry for me. The lyrical he defines as looking for the personal ideal in the individual and the epic is seeking out the infinite variety of the universe. Ultimately, novel reading and writing is about accessing the epic, which ironically can be done through examining the lyrical.
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"Mentre Dio andava lentamente abbandonando il posto da cui aveva diretto l'universo e il suo ordine di valori, separato il bene dal male e dato un senso a ogni cosa, Don Chisciotte uscì di casa e non fu più in grado di riconoscere il mondo. Questo, in assenza del Giudice supremo, appare all'improvviso una terribile ambiguità; l'unica Verità divina si scompose in centinaia di verità relative, che gli uomini si spartirono tra loro. Nacque così il mondo dei Tempi moderni, e con esso il romanzo, sua
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