The Curtain

Milan Kundera, in his famously light and revelatory prose, recounts the history of the novel, beginning with Cervantes` Don Quixote and moving through the innovations and epiphanies of Rabelais, Flaubert, Kafka, Joyce, and Garcia Marquez. He traces the ways authors influence each other, their art crossing borders and cultures, their words pulling away the curtain that limits our understanding of the world. Though many of the ideas here are similar to ones from Kundera`s earlier work, THE ART OF THE NOVEL, his lapidary insight and still-youthful (at 78) passion are infectious to all lovers of literature. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.