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A review by neerajams
The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts by Milan Kundera
4.0
I thoroughly enjoyed The Curtain, Milan Kundera's series of short essays on the history of the novel. It doesn't contain any earth-shattering insight, but its genius lies in Kundera's ability to take all of the various brief thoughts on literature that may have flitted in and out of your head and put them together far more concretely and concisely than you ever could.
On the whole, the essays are truly entertaining and very accessible. Though I haven't read many of the books he references (the expected list of Madame Bovary and Ulysses that are continuously on the back burner of my "to read" list but that I never actually plan to read), the examples are used in such a way that it doesn't matter.
Definitely worth reading for anyone who enjoys reading.
On the whole, the essays are truly entertaining and very accessible. Though I haven't read many of the books he references (the expected list of Madame Bovary and Ulysses that are continuously on the back burner of my "to read" list but that I never actually plan to read), the examples are used in such a way that it doesn't matter.
Definitely worth reading for anyone who enjoys reading.