Commiserating with Devastated ThingsCommiserating with Devastated Things seeks to understand the place Milan Kundera calls the universe of the novel. Working through Kunderas oeuvre as well as the continental philosophical tradition, Wirth argues that Kundera transformsnot appliesphilosophical reflection within literature. Reading between Kunderas work and his self avowed tradition, from Kafka to Hermann Broch, Wirth asks what it might mean to insist that philosophy does not have a