The Curtain

A landmark essay about the value of the novel from the superstar author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being. A magic curtain, woven of legends, hung before the world . . . Cervantes sent Don Quixote journeying and tore the curtain. The world opened before the knight errant in all the comical nakedness of its prose.' For Kundera, this curtain represents our individual, ready-made, pre-interpret...