Man desires a world where good and evil can be clearly distinguished, for he has an innate and irrepressible desire to judge before he understands. ...This 'either-or' encapsulates an inability to tolerate the essential relativity of things human, an inability to look squarely at the absence of the Supreme Judge. This inability makes the novel's wisdom (the wisdom of uncertainty) hard to accept and understand. -- The Art of the Novel, Milan Kundera
...(truths embodied in imaginary selves called characters)...
Italics and parentheses in original. - The Art of the Novel, Milan Kundera Photo taken in Ample Hills Creamery, Nevins Street, Brooklyn NY. "...the world as ambiguity...a welter of contradictory truths...the wisdom of uncertainty..." (italics in original) --The Art of the Novel, Milan Kundera
A novel that does not discover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality. - The Art of the Novel, Milan Kundera (translated from the French by Linda Asher)
Update, January 14, 2017
Taking a break from the word-laden world of my Roget's to explore Milan Kundera's The Art of the Novel. |
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