小说是人们最常见的一种文学体裁,古今中外的小说名著曾给人以美妙的享受,但若有人猛一问:小说是会么?也许会使人茫然。这是一个既简单又复杂的问题。说它简单,是因为它似乎不言自明,连小学生就能分辨出什么是小说,什么不是;说它复杂,是因为人们对它的本质的探讨五花八门,莫衷一是。这里我们要谈的是捷克当代作家米兰·昆德拉的小说观,它代表了本世纪80年代中期以来的一种新的小说理论思潮。 米兰·昆德拉一向以小说家著称,他的名著《生命中不能承受之轻》曾引起中国读者的强烈兴趣,而他小说创作上的成功与他的小说观念密不可分。他那别有见地的小说理论不仅有助于我们更好地理解当 Fiction is one of the most common literary genres of mankind. Fictional novels both at home and abroad have given people a wonderful experience. However, anyone who fiercely asks whether the novel might make a loss? This is a simple and complex issue. To say it simple is because it seems self-evident that even primary school students can tell what is a novel and what is not; to say that it is complicated is because people explore the essence of it in a wide variety of ways. Here we are going to talk about the novel view of the contemporary Czech writer Milan Kundera, which represents a new kind of theory of novel theory since the mid-1980s. Milan Kundera has always been known as a novelist, his famous book “Unbearable Lightness in Life” has aroused strong interest in Chinese readers, and his success in the creation of novels and his novels are inseparable. His seemingly novel theory not only helps us to understand better