Dec 27, 2009

Immortality | Related Titles

In 1988 Grove Press published Kundera's The Art of the Novel, a translation of L'Art du roman, originally published in 1986 (and not to be confused with his 1960 study on Vancura of the same title). The volume collects seven pieces which comprise, according to Kundera, "a practitioner's confession" of the idea of the novel inherent in his own works. Notable among these are "The Depreciated Legacy of Cervantes," important for a full understanding of Cervantes's influence on Kundera's theory of the novel; "Somewhere Behind/' a brilliant and suggestive essay on Kafka; and...