Milan Kundera - A regény művészete (2018)

The Art of the Novel (2018) is Milan Kundera's essay on the history and craft of the novel, a book for readers who want to think seriously about literature. Published by Európa in 2018, it is organised as seven loosely connected essays that trace the European novel as a succession of discoveries rather than a summary of texts. Kundera argues that the novel's only morality is knowledge, and he returns again and again to the writers who shaped his view of the form, among them Cervantes, Broch, Kafka, Rabelais, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy and Musil.

Two dialogues turn the discussion to the author's own work, covering polyphony, composition, the creation of the experimental ego and the art of translation. The book is classified under literary history and literary theory, and its clear argument makes it suitable for students of literature as well as general readers interested in the novel.

This Hungarian edition carries ISBN 9789634058939.