"The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts" by Milan Kundera (translated by Arlind Novi) will soon be available in bookstores.
In the essay “The Curtain,” Kundera returns to his most beloved subject, the novel, and its central importance in Western culture. The curtain is the veil of our prejudices and clichés, and the writer’s task is to tear it away, to reveal to us the real world that lies behind it.
Written in the late period of his creative work, “The Curtain” returns for the third and final time (after “The Art of the Novel” and “The Betrayed Testaments”) to the vital issues for the author: the novel, the writer, the role of literature. Kundera looks back on a vast creative work that is coming to a close, offering a final testament to his work, and to his worldview for literature.
Milan Kundera was born in the Czech Republic, and lived in France since 1975. He died in 2023.
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