The Art of the Novel, Milan Kundera
The Art of the Novel, Milan Kundera
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The Art of the Novel

Author: Milan Kundera

Narrator: Graeme Malcolm

Unabridged: 8 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 09/25/2012

Synopsis

“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 KunderaKundera 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.

About Milan Kundera

The Franco-Czech novelist Milan Kundera (1929–2023) was born in Brno and lived in France, his second homeland, since 1975 until his death. 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 more recent 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Glenn on July 13, 2023

Milan Kundera, 1929-2023 NOVEL. The great prose form in which an author thoroughly explores, by means of experimental selves (characters), some great themes of existence. LETTERS. They are getting smaller and smaller in books these days. I imagine the death of literature; bit by bit, without anyone n......more

Goodreads review by فايز غازي on September 21, 2023

- في هذا الكتاب نحن امام مهندس افكار يأخذ بيدنا ليرينا تقنيات الفن المعماري للأدب، كيف تشيّد الصروح الفكرية والأدبية والفلسفية، الأساسات، والإتجهات المختلفة (أوروبا بشكل خاص)، كما يعرج على اهم مواد البناء التي يستعملها شخصياً في بناء رواياته. - الكتاب من افخم انواع النبيذ الفرنسي، فعناقيد افكاره ماخو......more

Goodreads review by Valeriu on May 16, 2023

Kundera e un prozator foarte conștient de arta sa. E limpede că, în cazul lui, inspirația e exclusă. Eseurile din acest volum mi-au adus aminte de Filosofia compoziției, textul în care Edgar Allan Poe arată că literatura e pe cale de a deveni o „ars combinatoria” perfect lucidă. În proza lui Kundera......more

Goodreads review by Georgia on July 21, 2023

I had no idea when I had a massage in Brno that it was Kundera's birthplace. I only knew that I was confused. The masseuse offered something I didn't get. I just shook my head. Only after I left did it occur to me the word she said was "sex." In her Czech accent it sounded more like "text." I was re......more

Goodreads review by P.E. on July 14, 2023

A collection of essays, interviews and speeches, with 69 definitions and notes tagging along. "alas, the novel too is assailed by the termites of depreciation that not only depreciate the meaning of the world but also the meaning of art works. The novel (like any cultural item) is increasingly in the......more

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