Art of the Novel (Perennial Classics) by Kundera

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ISBN
9780060093747
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0060093749
ISBN-13
9780060093747
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2294801

Product Key Features

Book Title
Art of the Novel
Number of Pages
176 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2003
Topic
Authorship, Modern / 20th Century, General
Features
Large Type
Genre
Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, History
Author
Milan Kundera
Book Series
Perennial Classics Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
0.2 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2004-303518
Reviews
Lucid, detached, and epigrammatic ...The book has its author's familiar swiftness and variety of attack and his elegant, provocative irony., Refreshing, unorthodox, valuable. Incandescent illumination by one of literature's most important voices., "Lucid, detached, and epigrammatic ...The book has its author's familiar swiftness and variety of attack and his elegant, provocative irony." - The New Yorker, "Lucid, detached, and epigrammatic ...The book has its author's familiar swiftness and variety of attack and his elegant, provocative irony." -- The New Yorker "Incites us to reflect on fiction and philosophy, knowledge and truth, and brilliantly illustrates the art of the essay." -- The New Republic "Highly readable, provocative, and of inspirational force." -- Anthony Burgess "Kundera writes with wisdom and force." -- The Village Voice "Refreshing, unorthodox, valuable. Incandescent illumination by one of literature's most important voices." -- Kirkus Reviews, Incites us to reflect on fiction and philosophy, knowledge and truth, and brilliantly illustrates the art of the essay.
Dewey Edition
0
TitleLeading
The
Series Volume Number
115
Dewey Decimal
809.3
Edition Description
Large Type / large print edition
Synopsis
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., "Incites us to reflect on fiction and philosophy, knowledge and truth, and brilliantly illustrates the art of the essay." -- The New Republic "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 the idea of the novel that is inherent in my own novels." -- Milan Kundera Kundera brilliantly examines the evolution, construction, and essence of the novel as an art form through the lens of his own work and through the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Musil, Kafka, and perhaps the least known of all the great novelists of our time, Hermann Broch. 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.
LC Classification Number
PN3453.K8613 2003

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