The Curtain - A Essay in Seven Parts

Informationen zum Autor The French-Czech novelist Milan Kundera was born in the Czech Republic and has lived in France since 1975. He died in Paris in 2023. A former fiction editor at The New Yorker , Linda Asher has translated work by Milan Kundera, Georges Simenon, Victor Hugo, Balzac, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Restif de la Bretonne, and many others. Awarded several translation prizes, she is a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters of the French Republic. Klappentext In this entertaining and stimulating essay, one of world literature's most distinctive thinkers sets out his personal view of the history and value of the novel in Western civilisation. Milan Kundera's The Curtain: Essays is a brilliant exploration of the novel - its history and its art - from one of the genre's most distinguished practitioners. Zusammenfassung In this entertaining and stimulating essay, one of world literature's most distinctive thinkers sets out his personal view of the history and value of the novel in Western civilisation.

Product details

• Authors: Milan Kundera
• Assisted by: Linda Asher (Translation), Asher Linda (Translation)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2007
• EAN: 9780571232819
• ISBN: 978-0-571-23281-9
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Tschechische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), Literary essays, Humankind; Language