"A magic curtain, woven of legends, hung before the world.
Cervantes sent Don Quixote journeying and tore through the curtain.
The world opened before the knight-errant in all the comical
nakedness of its prose."
In this thought-provoking, endlessly enlightening, and
entertaining essay on the art of the novel, renowned author Milan
Kundera suggests that "the curtain" represents a ready-made
perception of the world that each of us has--a pre-interpreted
world. The job of the novelist, he argues, is to rip through the
curtain and reveal what it hides. Here an incomparable literary
artist cleverly sketches out his personal view of the history and
value of the novel in Western civilization. In doing so, he
celebrates a prose form that possesses the unique ability to
transcend national and language boundaries in order to reveal some
previously unknown aspect of human existence.
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