The Art Of The Novel

Every novelists work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novelan idea of what the novel is. I have tried to express here the idea of thenovel that... » 

Every novelists work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novelan idea of what the novel is. I have tried to express here the idea of thenovel that is inherent in my own novels. Milan Kundera Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important anddiverse figures as Rabelais Cervantes Sterne Diderot Flaubert Tolstoy andMusil. He is especially penetrating on Hermann Broch and his exploration ofthe world of Kafkas novels vividly reveals the comic terror of Kafkasbureaucratized universe. Kunderas discussion of his own work includes hisviews on the role of historical events in fiction the meaning of action andthe creation of character in the postpsychological novel. «