Make History. or Call in a Plumber. ; LITERARY CRITICISM ++ the Curtain by Milan Kundera FABER [Pound]12.99

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'A novelist talking about the art of the novel is not a professor giving a discourse from his podium ... He will talk about himself, but even more about other people, about novels of theirs that he loves and that have a secret presence in his work. According to his criteria of values, he will again trace out for you the whole past of the novel's history, and in so doing will give you some sense of his own poetics of the novel, one that belongs to him alone..." Milan Kundera's introduction to a sequence of reflections from Witold Gombrowicz is also a concise apologia for his own method in this persuasive, if sidelong, essay on the history and practice of novelism. A short and …