The Curtain

Milan Kundera, one of the greatest writers of modernity, returns once again to the exploration of the genre in which he has worked all his life: in the literary-philosophical essay «The Curtain», we, along with the author, immerse ourselves in the universe of the novel. The deep patterns of the novel, the fates of great creations and creators — Rabelais, Cervantes, Tolstoy, Proust, Musil, Kafka and many others — are revealed here with subtlety and brilliance, reminding us why the world needs fictional literature: it gives us the tools to discern the hidden and learn to understand the non-obvious.