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 here the idea of the novel that is inherent in my own novels.
-- Milan Kundera Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Musil. He is especially penetrating on Hermann Broch, and his exploration of the world of Kafka's novels vividly reveals the comic terror of Kafka's bureaucratized universe. 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.
##readable and provocative i like it
评分##Concentrated. Lucid. If I'd read the book in my undergraduate study, I might have been a literature graduate. As great as Noam Chomsky's Syntactic Structure and George Lakoff's Metaphors We live By.
评分##2014年的最后一本课外书?要开始写论文了>_<
评分##2.29-3.9 | gotta actually read the classics if i want to understand all these literary criticism books
评分##整体体验是对昆叔乎一下子爱乎一下子恨,一摞一摞的自高自大的自言自语当中会突然出现一些让人措不及防的金句。感觉昆叔应该是个酷(和自恋/自虐)到没朋友的人……
评分##这是我读得最痛苦的英文书......
评分##Concentrated. Lucid. If I'd read the book in my undergraduate study, I might have been a literature graduate. As great as Noam Chomsky's Syntactic Structure and George Lakoff's Metaphors We live By.
评分##整体体验是对昆叔乎一下子爱乎一下子恨,一摞一摞的自高自大的自言自语当中会突然出现一些让人措不及防的金句。感觉昆叔应该是个酷(和自恋/自虐)到没朋友的人……
评分##很有意思诶 昆德拉对小说的很多思考和评价对我来说还是很新颖的 而且读完以后有一种豁然开朗的感觉