Je kijkt hulpeloos toe als hij je kind offert om de goden gunstig te stemmen
Stefan Zweig's selection of historical turning points
her brother writes books that have been blacklisted and her own aunt may denounce her to the authorities at any moment
observed from the sidelines by his devoted friend Honda
en over een volk dat wanhopig probeert stabiliteit te vinden in de maalstroom van de geschiedenis
The Art of the Novel - Milan Kundera Inge Pieters Je kijkt hulpeloos toe alsCervantes, 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