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The Art of the Novel Author: Milan Kundera Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House
The Art of the Novel Author: Milan Kundera Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House
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Introduction · · · · · ·
Milan Kundera's essay masterpieces are a must-read for understanding novels of all times
Why read novels today?
From Flaubert, Kafka, Proust to Joyce
Milan Kundera's Seven Open Novels
Where do novels come from? Why do people like novels? How does reading novels help our lives? In this book, Milan Kundera starts from when Don Quixote left home, describes the changes of novels and the spiritual comfort they bring to mankind, and then tells the wisdom of novels.
"When humans think, God laughs." Kundera said that inspired by this motto, he likes to imagine that Rabelais heard God's laughter one day, and the first great novel in Europe was born. The art of the novel came into the world as an echo of God's laughter. The wisdom of the novel is different from the wisdom of philosophy. It is not born from the theoretical spirit, but from the humorous spirit.
"The Art of the Novel" is also a concentrated embodiment of Kundera's novel aesthetics. Through this book, we can understand the writer's artistic views, style, techniques, his attitude towards writing, his understanding of literary tradition, and his thoughts on people and the world behind this attitude. It is the best answer to the value of the existence of novels.
★ Milan Kundera's summary of his thoughts on the art of fiction as a novelist and researcher
★ A must-read for understanding Kundera, it is a masterpiece of Kundera's essays.
★ A concentrated reflection of Kundera's novel aesthetics, the best introductory book to understand Kundera's novel creation philosophy
★ The best answer to the value of novels: Discovering things that only novels can discover is the only reason for the existence of novels
★ The concentrated embodiment of Kundera's modernity: "Kitsch, Littorst, male chauvinist, beauty, fate, vulgarity, laughter"... Kundera's interpretation of these words still has a strong sense of modernity today.
About the Author
Milan Kundera (1929- )
A world-renowned novelist and literary critic. Born in Brno, Czechoslovakia in 1929, he has lived in France since 1975. He has written 16 works, including novels such as "The Joke", "Life is Elsewhere", "Farewell Waltz", "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting", "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", "Immortality", "Slowness", "Identity", "Ignorance", "Celebrating Meaninglessness", short story collection "Laughable Love", essay collection "The Art of the Novel", "The Betrayed Will", "Curtain", "Meeting", and drama "Jacques and His Master". He won the Medici Foreign Novel Prize in 1973, the Jerusalem Literature Prize in 1985, the French Academy Literature Prize in 2001, and the Franz Kafka International Literature Prize in 2020.
Dong Qiang
Professor of French Department of Peking University, Chairman of the Jury of Fu Lei Translation Award, Foreign Lifetime Corresponding Member of the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences. He once studied under Milan Kundera, and his main translations include Milan Kundera's The Art of the Novel, Identity, Curtain, and The Logic of Sensation - Deleuze on Bacon.
