Milan Kundera's Fiction - A Critical Approach to Existential Betrayals (Hardcover)

Milan Kundera is one of the few Czech writers with worldwide readership. Often set within a political context, his novels have appealed to readers for their clarity and originality, intellectual flair, philosophical angles, and mythological metaphors. In Milan Kundera’s Fiction: A Critical Approach to Existential Betrayals, Karen von Kunes traces Kundera’s literary aspirations to a single episode in Czechoslovakia in the Stalinist era. This moment attracted international attention when a 1950 police report was released in 2008. Reporters rushed to judgment, accusing Kundera of denouncing a young man, Miroslav Dvořáček, to the police, resulting in Dvořáček’s immediate arrest and sentencing to hard labor. von Kunes debunks this shocking charge in a systematic and thorough fashion. She argues that Kundera reported a suitcase, not a man. Von Kunes further contends that two sentences in the report provide significant insight into Kundera’s novels and plays. She ties his dominant themes of sex, betrayal, and political denouncement to the suitcase, a fatal instrument that can lead to paradoxes and unforeseen and catastrophic coincidences for his characters.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2019
Authors:	Karen von Kunes
Dimensions:	230 x 161 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-1-4985-1080-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General Books > Philosophy > General
LSN:	1-4985-1080-9
Barcode:	9781498510806

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!