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
##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。
##昆德拉對卡夫卡十分推崇Part 5, What is the Kafkan? 貫穿整本書的對於卡夫卡的評價及分析十分精妙。 文學和音樂的結構對比。 對於novel作為一種整閤narrative，lyrical and philosophy的一種藝術形式有非常精彩的論述。 “Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas.”
##Ultra high precision as a sushi knife... The outcome is irresistable urge to meet Kundera. Long live Kundera...
##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。
##親切
##怎麼樣都想讀一讀Sleepwalkers。說起來，剛入捷剋邊境時候停靠的第一個服務區，對麵是巨大的兒童樂園，地球，飛機，噴火龍，怎麼也沒想到進入捷剋腦子裏蹦齣來的第一個詞竟然就是Kitsch。後來齣瞭種種bug沒能進Kafka博物館。 嗯對要我說的話這次旅行還真是Kitsch得一塌糊塗。
##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。
##Ultra high precision as a sushi knife... The outcome is irresistable urge to meet Kundera. Long live Kundera...
##2014年的最後一本課外書？要開始寫論文瞭>_<