The Curtain

  • Author: Milan Kundera
  • Narrator: Graeme Malcolm
  • Publisher: HarperCollins USA
  • Duration: 4:40:32
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Synopsis

“A magic curtain, woven of legends, hung before the world. Cervantes sent Don Quixote journeying and tore through the curtain. The world opened before the knight-errant in all the comical nakedness of its prose.”

In this thought-provoking, endlessly enlightening, and entertaining essay on the art of the novel, renowned author Milan Kundera suggests that “the curtain” represents a ready-made perception of the world that each of us has—a pre-interpreted world. The job of the novelist, he argues, is to rip through the curtain and reveal what it hides. Here an incomparable literary artist cleverly sketches out his personal view of the history and value of the novel in Western civilization. In doing so, he celebrates a prose form that possesses the unique ability to transcend national and language boundaries in order to reveal some previously unknown aspect of human existence.

Chapters

  • 041_Marcel Proust's Verdict

    Duration: 01min
  • 042_Ethic of Essential

    Duration: 02min
  • 043_Reading is Long..

    Duration: 01min
  • 044_Little Boy and Grandmother

    Duration: 02min
  • 045_Cervantes Verdict

    Duration: 01min
  • 046_Part Five_Aesthetics and Existence

    Duration: 02min
  • 047_Action

    Duration: 04min
  • 048_Agelasts

    Duration: 03min
  • 048_Humor

    Duration: 02min
  • 050_And If the Tragic..

    Duration: 02min
  • 051_The Deserter

    Duration: 03min
  • 052_The Tragic Chain

    Duration: 02min
  • 053_Hell

    Duration: 02min
  • 054_Part Six_Torn Curtain

    Duration: 02min
  • 055_The Torn Curtain

    Duration: 06min
  • 056_The Torn Curtain Tragic

    Duration: 06min
  • 057_The Fairy

    Duration: 03min
  • 058_Going Down Into Dark Depths..

    Duration: 04min
  • 059_Bureaucracy According to Stifter

    Duration: 04min
  • 060_Defiled World of Castle and Village

    Duration: 02min
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