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The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts,Used
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An elegant, personalized integration of anecdote, analysis, scholarship, memory and speculation. . . . Not since Henry James, perhaps, has a fiction writer examined the process of writing with such insight, authority and range of reference and allusion. Russell Banks, New York Times Book ReviewA magic curtain, woven of legends, hung before the world. Cervantes sent Don Quixote journeying and tore through the curtain. The world opened before the knighterrant in all the comical nakedness of its prose.In this thoughtprovoking, endlessly enlightening, and entertaining essay on the art of the novel, renowned author Milan Kundera suggests that the curtain represents a readymade perception of the world that each of us hasa preinterpreted world. The job of the novelist, he argues, is to rip through the curtain and reveal what it hides.Here an incomparable literary artist cleverly sketches out his personal view of the history and value of the novel in Western civilization. In doing so, he celebrates a prose form that possesses the unique ability to transcend national and language boundaries in order to reveal some previously unknown aspect of human existence.
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