具體描述
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.
-- Milan Kundera 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.
用戶評價
##親切
##Writing novels is an art that unfolds the meaning of life in a seemingly insouciant world. Great novels surpass time and transmit the weight of history to the following generation. Though the term polyphony is not unfamiliar in literary studies, I am still amazed to see how Kundera faithfully structures his novel based on the composition of music.
##這是我讀得最痛苦的英文書......
##時而引人發笑，時而令人深思。希望自己有朝一日也能感受一下昆德拉如牧羊人一般追逐譯者的煩惱。
##親切
##Concentrated. Lucid. If I'd read the book in my undergraduate study, I might have been a literature graduate. As great as Noam Chomsky's Syntactic Structure and George Lakoff's Metaphors We live By.
##It’s like watching a genius flexing his talent. The genius bit is so enticing, the flexing (the assertive and deliberately provocative) bit not so much but still quite bearable due to his genius. 最有趣的是，一年前讀昆德拉的時候就覺得他不會喜歡Orwell，即使他們都把蘇聯當作死敵；這一點上得到確證讓我好快活。
##3.5 正統、嚴肅、博學、自信，昆德拉自封為三百年les temps modernes的繼承者。喜歡他寫的故事，喜歡他的理論，但不太喜歡他，a huge halo deceptively unaware of itself。也許是因為，作為一個小人物，與一個曆史傳承者生活在同一個時代而感到彆扭吧，沒法打心底認同這種legitimacy。
##2014年的最後一本課外書？要開始寫論文瞭>_<