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Every novelist's work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of what the novel is. I have tried to express here the idea of the novel that is inherent in my own novels.
每位小说家的作品都隐含着作者对小说历史的理解,以及作者关于“小说是什么”的想法,在此,我陈述了我小说中固有的、我自己关于小说的想法——米兰·昆德拉
内容简介
Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Musil. He is especially penetrating on Hermann Broch, and his exploration of the world of Kafka's novels vividly reveals the comic terror of Kafka's bureaucratized universe.
Kundera's discussion of his own work includes his views on the role of historical events in fiction, the meaning of action, and the creation of character in the post-psychological novel.
小说家一旦扮演公众人物的角色,就使他的作品处于危险的境地,因为它可能被视为他的行为、他的宣言、他采取的立场的附庸。
米兰·昆德拉自认并不擅长理论。书中的思考是作为实践者而进行的。每位小说家的作品都隐含着作者对小说历史的理解,以及作者关于"小说究竟是什么"的想法。在此,米兰·昆德拉陈述了他小说中固有的、他自己关于小说的想法。
作者简介
The Franco-Czech novelist and critic Milan Kundera was born in Brno and has lived in France, his second homeland, since 1975. He is the author of the novels The Joke, Farewell Waltz, Life Is Elsewhere, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and the short-story collection Laughable Loves—all originally written in Czech. His most recent novels, Slowness, Identity, and Ignorance, as well as his nonfiction works The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain, and Encounter, were originally written in French.
米兰·昆德拉:捷克小说家。1967年出版第一部长篇小说《玩笑》,获得巨大成功。曾多次获得国际文学奖,并多次被提名为诺贝尔文学奖的候选人。主要作品有《小说的艺术》、《不能承受的生命之轻》等。被《华盛顿邮报》誉为“欧美最杰出的和最为有趣的小说家之一”。
精彩书评
"Incites us to reflect on fiction and philosophy, knowledge and truth, and brilliantly illustrates the art of the essay."
-- New Republic
前言/序言
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