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.
##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
评分##What the novel alone can discover: man's being.
评分##这是我读得最痛苦的英文书......
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
评分##时而引人发笑,时而令人深思。希望自己有朝一日也能感受一下昆德拉如牧羊人一般追逐译者的烦恼。
评分##讀完他的小說再讀會更好
评分##What the novel alone can discover: man's being.
评分##Writing novels is an art that unfolds the meaning of life in a seemingly insouciant world. Great novels surpass time and transmit the weight of history to the following generation. Though the term polyphony is not unfamiliar in literary studies, I am still amazed to see how Kundera faithfully structures his novel based on the composition of music.
评分##2014年的最后一本课外书?要开始写论文了>_<