The Art of the Novel (Magill Book Reviews)

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Ostensibly a gathering of essays on Kundera’s work and that of a number of other European writers, THE ART OF THE NOVEL is nothing less than a brilliant and provocative analysis of the nature and importance of the novel form, of its relationship to the continued survival of the individual self, and of the conditions which threaten their mutual existence.

Kundera is not only one of the foremost novelists of the contemporary age; he is also one of the most knowledgeable and one of the most committed. His commitment is, however, quite unlike that of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, whose...

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