In referencing Tolstoy, Kundera talks about how the novelist, like an architect was obliged to impose a form, composition was of utmost importance. "The beauty of the novel is inseparable from its architecture." (pg 154)
"What is left of a work of art once it's stripped of its form?" (154)
He talks about the "epistolary novel" and its possibilities
digressions
episodes
ruminations
ideas
memories
says that many are caught up in the "despotic authority of the story" (pg 166) Kundera is interested beyond that, in the moment, the digression.
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