The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything....The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead. The totalitarian world, whether founded on Marx, Islam, or anything else, is a world of answers rather than questions. There, the novel has no place.
-- Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Something,1999
Oil on fiberboard
40 x 30 cm / 15.75 x 11.81 in
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