The Art of the Novel

By: Milan Kundera

Published April 1st 2003 by Harper Perennial Modern Classics (first published November 21st 1986)

Category: Arts

Pages: 176 pages

ISBN: 9780060093747

Description:
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.