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

  • 061_Existential Meaning of Bureaucratized World

    Duration: 07min
  • 062_Ages of Life Concealed Behind Curtain

    Duration: 05min
  • 063_Morning Freedom Evening Freedom

    Duration: 05min
  • 064_Part Seven_The Novel Memory..

    Duration: 01min
  • 065_Forgetting that Erases Memory..

    Duration: 02min
  • 066_The Novel as Utopia...

    Duration: 06min
  • 067_Composition

    Duration: 05min
  • 068_A Forgotten Birth

    Duration: 04min
  • 069_Unforgettable Forgetting

    Duration: 04min
  • 070_A Forgotten Europe

    Duration: 01min
  • 071_The Novel as Journey...

    Duration: 05min
  • 072_Theater of Memory

    Duration: 02min
  • 073_Conciousness of Continuity

    Duration: 06min
  • 074_Eternity

    Duration: 03min
  • sample

    Duration: 01min
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