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# The Art of the Novel: Milan Kundera's Essays on the Philosophy, Evolution, and Essence of Fiction (Perennial Classics)

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Knowledge is the novel's only morality
  

*by L***T on Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2008*

In these brilliant reflections Milan Kundera discusses fundamental characteristics of the novel, its history and its immorality.The object of the novel is the enigma of the self (the subject) functioning in a world full of ambiguities, where all things human are relative.HistoryNovelists, like Cervantes, examined the self through its actions, which (partly) revealed the nature of the self.A new generation, like Flaubert, delved into the self's invisible interior life (dreams, the irrational) in order to reveal the self's secrets.Joyce dissects painstakingly the present.In fine, F. Kafka poses the ultimate question of what possibilities are left in a world where the external determinants become so overpowering that internal impulses no longer carry weight.Radical autonomyKafka's novels are the masterful proofs of the radical autonomy of the novel. By creating an extreme and unrealized possibility of the human world, Kafka expressed things about our human condition which no social or political thought could ever tell.ImmoralityThe novel is boundless freedom. It is not rational or based on verisimilitude.Novelists should use this freedom to discover unrealized possibilities of the human world. A novelist who doesn't unveil a hitherto unknown segment of human existence is immoral.These in depth meditations on one of the major components of human art are a must read for all lovers of world literature.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Thought Provoking
  

*by E***N on Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2015*

Very inspirational. It is not a how to book, though I did gain insight into Kundera's writing process. It is a why book. Why right novels? Kundera's answers are worth reading and meditating over.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A compilation of brilliant insights on Europe as well as the novel
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2023*

Kundera's insights are startling and revealing. It's not often we suddenly understand things that we did not even know were important with the force of a storm. A storm of brilliant insights.

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