The Art of the Novel by Milan Kundera.

... The Art of the Novel by Milan Kundera: ~Commentary~ Through our in-class discussions, analysis and interpretations of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Cervantes' Don Quixote, we came across two of a novel's intentions: one being to "explore the enigma of the self" and the other being to organize or to somehow give some kind of structure to what seems like random and chaotic experiences. This didactic passage, from Milan Kundera's The Art of the Novel, presents the reader with Kundera's view of the three things that not only a novel should aim to accomplish, but more significantly, three things that differentiate a novel from other art forms. In this passage, Kundera personifies the novel by presenting its progression or development in the form of a journey, an adventure which helped create and shape it, a journey around the world, across time and through history. This passage is not in and

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