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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…

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Kundera traces the beginnings of the modern European novel to 15th- and 16th-century French theater in ways that are thought-provoking and amusing.

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