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A funny, surreal romp through a totally imagined land. Totally imagined because Kafka had never been to America when he wrote this book. But he's not writing a transcription of social reality so much as a study of psychological perversion and strangeness. Also, it's funny!
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This book is bizarre, and I mean that in the best possible sense. Think of Salvador Dali or Heironymus Bosch with a copy of Freud dropped into the 20th century and asked to write a novel. Its utterly strange universe is somehow vivid and poetic.
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Unlike any novel you will ever read, Musil's immense book is singularly thoughtful, each of his characters is illuminated by an intelligence that can effortlessly distinguish between incredibly subtle shades of meaning and states of consciousness and can relate them to a philosophical tradition with total ease and clarity.
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I haven't read this guy but I'm gonna take Milan's word for it.
About this trail
I've been a Kundera fan for some time. In two of his non-fiction books, The Art of the Novel and Testaments Betrayed, Kundera gives some insight into the origins of his own fiction. This trail lists some of the authors who have been important to Milan Kundera, authors that form what he has described as "a Central European Plaeides". While it is difficult to generalize about all these authors, they do seem to share what Kundera sees as central to the novel--an aesthetic of ambiguity.
