tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3693617511149854116.post9193341407830317491..comments2023-10-28T11:23:36.489+00:00Comments on Daybook: The CurtainCeliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16991858191357843517noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3693617511149854116.post-2076279078760817102007-07-31T20:34:00.000+00:002007-07-31T20:34:00.000+00:00‘Scatter-gun approach’ – yes, but in such a brief ...‘Scatter-gun approach’ – yes, but in such a brief mention I wasn’t doing justice to Kundera’s argument, which is developed using very precise examples from particular novels, explaining why those he chooses to focus on are offering something new – getting behind ‘the curtain’; often this is achieved by showing things from the ‘new perspective’, as you say.<BR/><BR/> In Art and Illusion, Gombrich says: The more we become aware of the enormous pull in man to repeat what he has learned, the greater will be our admiration for that exceptional being who could break this spell and make an exceptional advance on which others could build.’ Gombrich, of course, is writing in the context of the psychology of pictorial representation, but I suggest Kundera is saying something similar in relation to the art of the novel.Celiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16991858191357843517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3693617511149854116.post-2670081059739541232007-07-31T08:20:00.000+00:002007-07-31T08:20:00.000+00:00Wow! It's inevitably a scattergun approach though...Wow! It's inevitably a scattergun approach though, isn't it? In that what is unknown for one reader is not necessarily so for another. Or does he mean that each novel must reveal something that is like looking for a new idea in art: everything has been done before, but what is extraordinary is the new perspective.<BR/><BR/>I wonder what he thinks of the writing on the internet.Olga Norrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10554469124546960971noreply@blogger.com