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100 1 $aKundera, Milan.
240 10 $aRideau.$lEnglish
245 14 $aThe curtain :$ban essay in seven parts /$cMilan Kundera ; translated from the French by Linda Asher.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bHarperCollins Publishers,$cc2006.
300 $aviii, 168 p. ;$c22 cm.
505 0 $aPart 1. The Consciousness of Continuity -- The Consciousness of Continuity -- History and Value -- Theory of the Novel -- Poor Alonzo Quijada -- The Despotism of "Story" -- In Search of Present Time -- The Multiple Meanings of the Word "History" -- The Beauty of a Sudden Density of Life -- The Power of the Pointless -- The Beauty of a Death -- The Shame of Repeating Oneself -- Part 2. Die Weltliteratur -- Maximum Diversity in Minimum Space -- Irreparable Inequality -- Die Weltliteratur -- The Provincialism of Small Nations -- The Provincialism of Large Nations -- The Man from the East -- Central Europe -- The Contrasting Paths of the Modernist Revolt -- My Great Pleiades -- Kitsch and Vulgarity -- Antimodern Modernism -- Part 3. Getting Into the Soul of Things -- Getting Into the Soul of Things -- Ineradicable Error -- Situations -- What Only the Novel Can Say -- Thinking Novels -- The Frontier of the Implausible Is No Longer Under Guard -- Einstein and Karl Rossmann -- In Praise of Jokes -- The History of the Novel as Seen from Gombrowicz's Studio -- A Different Continent -- The Silvery Bridge -- Part 4. What Is a Novelist? -- To Understand, We Must Compare -- The Poet and the Novelist -- A Conversion Story -- The Soft Gleam of the Comical -- The Torn Curtain -- Fame -- They Killed My Albertine -- Marcel Proust's Verdict -- The Ethic of the Essential -- Reading Is Long, Life Is Short -- The Little Boy and His Grandmother -- Cervantes's Verdict -- Aesthetics and Existence -- Action -- Agelasts -- Humor -- And If the Tragic Has Deserted Us? -- The Deserter -- The Tragic Chain -- Hell -- Part 6. The Torn Curtain -- Poor Alonzo Quijada -- The Torn Curtain -- The Torn Curtain of the Tragic -- The Fairy -- Going Down Into the Dark Depths of a Joke -- Bureaucracy According to Stifter -- The Defiled World of Castle and Village -- The Existential Meaning of the Bureaucratized World -- The Ages of Life Concealed Behind the Curtain -- Morning Freedom, Evening Freedom -- Part 7. The Novel, Memory, Forgetting -- Amelie -- Forgetting That Erases, Memory That Transforms -- The Novel as Utopia of a World That Has No Forgetting in It -- Composition -- A Forgotten Birth -- Unforgettable Forgetting -- A Forgotten Europe -- The Novel as Journey Through the Centuries and the Continents -- The Theater of Memory -- Consciousness of Continuity -- Eternity.
650 0 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy.
650 0 $aFiction$xHistory and criticism.
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