The Art of the Novel - Milan Kundera Inge Pieters Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse is

Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse is a book for everyone who has ever been in love

Returning home after years away at university

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

Holly is a fragile eyeful of tawny hair and turned-up nose

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

The Art of the Novel - Milan Kundera Inge Pieters Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse isCervantes, 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