Monthly Archives: March 2007

The Curtain

One of Milan Kundera’s best-known novels, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, begins unconventionally, not with reported speech or narrative scene-setting, but with an exposition of Nietzsche’s doctrine of eternal return—apparently delivered in Kundera’s own voice. This is only the first of several such authorial intrusions in the book. Kundera’s other novels are the same: long [...]