The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question.…

Milan Kundera
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The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. ✨ The Most Original Book of the Season. Interview with Philip Roth, www.nytimes.com. November 30, 1980.
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