Curtain -- Milan Kundera Works Series

Author: Milan Kundera, translated by Dong Qiang
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: A magical curtain woven with legends, hanging in front of the world. Cervantes sent Don Quixote on a journey, tearing this curtain apart. The world, before this wandering knight, reveals itself in its unpoetic, comical nudity. Like a woman hastily making up for her first date, when the world confronts us as newborns, it has already been made up, masked, and preinterpreted. Those deceived are not only the conservatives; rebels, in their eagerness to oppose everything and everyone, fail to realize how they themselves are. What they rebel against is merely what is interpreted (preinterpreted) as worth rebelling against.