Milan Kundera is among the most popular writers of our time. His books literally captivate the reader with the refinement of style, skillful plot construction, and the intensity of the characters’ feelings. Each new work by the author adds to the ranks of intellectual prose bestsellers.
“Art of the Novel” is a collection of seven texts in which the celebrated author describes his personal concept of European literature. Here you’ll find room for very different writers whose work became the foundation of Kundera’s “personal history of the novel”: Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Musil, Kafka, and many others.