{"product_id":"curtain-an-essay-in-seven-parts-1","title":"Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eCurtain: An Essay in Seven Parts\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMilan Kundera\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780060841867\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eHarper\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2007\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e176\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"An elegant, personalized integration of anecdote, analysis, scholarship, memory and speculation. . . . Not since Henry James, perhaps, has a fiction writer examined the process of writing with such insight, authority and range of reference and allusion.\" --Russell Banks, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"A magic curtain, woven of legends, hung before the world. Cervantes sent Don Quixote journeying and tore through the curtain. The world opened before the knight-errant in all the comical nakedness of its prose.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this thought-provoking, endlessly enlightening, and entertaining essay on the art of the novel, renowned author Milan Kundera suggests that \"the curtain\" represents a ready-made perception of the world that each of us has--a pre-interpreted world. The job of the novelist, he argues, is to rip through the curtain and reveal what it hides. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere an incomparable literary artist cleverly sketches out his personal view of the history and value of the novel in Western civilization. In doing so, he celebrates a prose form that possesses the unique ability to transcend national and language boundaries in order to reveal some previously unknown aspect of human existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts | Milan Kundera | Hardcover | 9780060841867 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks I 1790394","offer_id":68005338185880,"sku":"1790394","price":10.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/51eedhSBgML.jpg?v=1794705471","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/curtain-an-essay-in-seven-parts-1","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}