May 31, 2007
Essay on essays on novels as essays
Good stuff.
From Kundera’s new book (I’d like to read his essays, but I feel like I ought to tackle Cervantes, Fielding, and Sterne first. *sigh* One of these days.):
Novelists are specialists in the kind of moral wisdom which knows “that nobody is the person he thinks he is, that this misapprehension is universal, elementary, [...]