[Livre Culte 08] • L'Art Du Roman

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.