Lavinia reviewed The Curtain by Milan Kundera
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4 stars
The Curtain is an enlightening work on the art of the novel. The curtain is our veil of pre-interpretation of reality. Each one of us perceive reality from his/her own vantage, it is a reality formed by one’s cultural education, national identity and language. In this aspect, the curtain represents the ideologies and histories which influence our perceptions and impact our behaviours, thinking and acts, the provincialism, the “inability (or the refusal) to see one’s culture in the larger context.