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The Curtain is a seven-part essay by Milan Kundera, along with The Art of the Novel and Testaments Betrayed composing a type of trilogy of book-length essays on the European novel.

The Curtain was originally published as Le Rideau, in French in April 2005 by Gallimard. It was published in English on 30 January 2007 by HarperCollins.

v t e Works by Milan Kundera
Novels	The Joke Laughable Loves Life Is Elsewhere The Farewell Waltz The Book of Laughter and Forgetting The Unbearable Lightness of Being Immortality Slowness Identity Ignorance The Festival of Insignificance
Non-fiction	The Art of the Novel The Curtain
Plays	Jacques and his Master
Adaptations	The Joke (film) The Unbearable Lightness of Being (film)