Commiserating with Devastated Things seeks to understand the place Milan Kundera calls GCGBPthe universe of the novel.GC Working through KunderaGCOs oeuvre as well as the continental philosophical tradition, Wirth argues that Kundera transformsGConot appliesGCophilosophical reflection within literature. Reading between KunderaGs 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 monopoly on wisdom, that the novel has its own modes of wisdom that challenge philosophyGs.