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The Curtain An Essay in Seven Parts

Hardcover • 2006 • English

The Curtain An Essay in Seven Parts

By Milan Kundera

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About the book

"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. "Cervantes sent Don Quixote journeying and tore through the curtain. The world opened before the knight-errant in all the comical nakedness of its prose." For Kundera, that curtain represents a ready-made perception of the world that each of us has—a pre-interpreted world. The job of the novelist, he argues, is to rip through the curtain and reveal wh...Show more

Espionage and spy thriller
Technothriller
Thriller: organised crime

Book details

ISBN

9780060841867

Publisher

Harper Collins

Published year

2006

Language

English

Original title

The Curtain An Essay in Seven Parts

Format

Hardcover

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