The Art of the Novel
Written by Milan Kundera
Narrated by Graeme Malcolm
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In seven independent, but closely related chapters, Milan Kundera presents his personal conception of the European novel, which he describes as "an art born of the laughter of God." This is a classic of literary criticism from this world famous author.
Milan Kundera
The Franco-Czech novelist Milan Kundera (1929 - 2023) was born in Brno and lived in France, his second homeland, since 1975. He is the author of the novels The Joke, Life Is Elsewhere, Farewell Waltz, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and the short story collection Laughable Loves—all originally in Czech. His later novels, Slowness, Identity, Ignorance, and The Festival of Insignificance, as well as his nonfiction works, The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain, and Encounter, were originally written in French.
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Reviews for The Art of the Novel
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5There was a lot of history packed in this book very interesting.
I did not know anything about Kafka.
Thanks for this read.