Milan Kundera is one of the most popular writers of our time. His books literally fascinate the reader with the sophistication of their style, skillful plotting, and the intensity of the characters’ feelings. Each new work by the writer joins the ranks of best-selling intellectual prose. The Art of the Novel is a collection of seven texts in which the renowned author describes his personal concept of European literature. Here there was a place for a variety of writers, whose work became the basis of Milan Kundera’s “personal history of the novel”: these are Rabelais, Cervantes, Stern, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Musil, Kafka and many others.