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All novels . . . are concerned with the enigma of the self. As soon as you create an imaginary being, a character, you are automatically confronted by the question: what is the self? How can it be grasped?

May 29, 2018 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Art of the Novel – 4/5 Stars In the same way that the Annie Dillard and Vivian Gornick books provide an analysis of reading and also a reading list, this too gave me a lot to consider and more to read. First, I even went out and bought a copy of Witold Gombrowicz’s Ferdydurke, and will be more resolved to read Robert Musil’s The Man without Qualities, Kafka’s The Castle, and Jaroslav Hasek’s The Good Soldier Svejk in the near future. I also have […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: milan kundera, the art of the novel

vel veeter's CBR10 Review No:167 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: milan kundera, the art of the novel ·
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