NMLP P-021959 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Curtain

Milan Kundera · HarperCollins (US) / Faber & Faber (UK) · 2007

First English translation of Le rideau (Gallimard, Paris, 2005). Among English printings the HarperCollins US edition (published January 30, 2007) preceded the Faber & Faber UK edition (published March 15, 2007) by about six weeks, so the US HarperCollins printing is the true English-language first; the French Le rideau of 2005 is the true first edition of the work overall.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-021959 for "The Curtain" by Milan Kundera (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-021959, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).