The Art of the Novel - Milan Kundera Inge Pieters is verlamd door zorgen over

is verlamd door zorgen over zijn talent en wordt overweldigd door de liefde voor de dochter van zijn hospita

Returning home after years away at university

Je kijkt hulpeloos toe als hij je kind offert om de goden gunstig te stemmen

observed from the sidelines by his devoted friend Honda

The Art of the Novel - Milan Kundera Inge Pieters is verlamd door zorgen overCervantes, Joyce, Flaubert, Broch, Tolstoy, Kafka. What distinguishes the world and work of a truly great novelist? In these stunning philosophical reflections on the history, practice and morality of the novel, Kundera mines his personal experience as an author to argue that the European novel is 'an art born of the laughter of God'. Encompassing the role of historical events, the creation of character and the meaning of action in fiction, the result