Curtain: the Works of Milan Kundera (2022 Edition)
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Milan Kundera's literary essays, the third of Kundera's novel theory trilogy, are the continuation of "The Testament Betrayed" and "The Art of the Novel". "Curtain" is Kundera's rectification of many concepts on novels, literature and even art. "Curtain" outlines Kundera's previous thoughts on the art of fiction, and explores the world of fiction art that is intertwined with history and life reality in a freer way. Cervantes sent Don Quixote to travel around the world, tearing apart the "curtain" woven by legends and pre-interpretations that concealed the nature of reality... Kundera summarily integrated his own life experiences, mentioning Cervantes, Rabelais, Stern, Flaubert, Musil, Joyce, and Carstens. Fka and many other his favorite novelists, interspersed with multiple texts such as "Emotional Education", "1993", "Idiot" and "As I Lay Dying", divided into "awareness of continuity", "world literature", "entering the soul of things", "what is a novelist", "aesthetics and existence" and "torn" "Curtain", "Novel, Memory, Forgetting", in seven parts, with numerous subtitles, unfolds the analysis of multiple concepts such as time, kitsch, comedy, forgetfulness, etc., Announcing that "once used in art, the concept of history has nothing to do with progress; it does not mean a kind of perfection. An improvement, an improvement; it is like a journey to explore unknown lands and mark them on the map." "The novelist is not the servant of the historian." "The novelist is not someone who only wants to please the reader." This proves the need to introduce "the non-poetic nature of life" in novels.
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