A Arte do Romance

“The world of theories is not mine. These reflections are those of a practitioner. The work of every novelist contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of ​​what the novel is. It is this idea of ​​the novel, inherent in my novels, that I have made speak.” Milan Kundera’s reflection is a constant reference to the authors who serve as the foundation for his “personal history of the novel” – Kafka and Hermann Broch, but also Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Musil, Gombrowicz… The committed questioning of each of their works here constitutes perhaps one of the most stimulating essays published on the roots and possible paths of European culture.