Milan Kundera
Czech novelist, playwright, and poet
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?
—Milan Kundera, Czech novelist, playwright, and poet, Life is Elsewhere, 1986
Posted on April 3, 2000 at 8:27 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Beauty in art: the sudden kindled light of the never-before—. This light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.
—Milan Kundera, Czech novelist, playwright, and poet, The Art of the Novel, 1988
Posted on September 12, 2003 at 9:15 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
The sole raison d'etre of a novel is to discover what only the novel can discover. A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
—Milan Kundera, Czech novelist, playwright, and poet, The Art of the Novel, 1988
Posted on April 28, 2003 at 3:50 PM
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