Milan Kundera's fiction : a critical approach to existential betrayals /
"Karen von Kunes traces Milan Kundera's creative ideas to a 1950 police report filed in Stalinist era Czechoslovakia. Demonstrating how this incident influenced Kundera's literary trajectory and ultimately contributed to his acclaim as a writer, von Kunes interprets his work in a new...
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Lexington Books,
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Publisher Address: | Lanham, Maryland : |
Publication Dates: | [2019] |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Summary: |
"Karen von Kunes traces Milan Kundera's creative ideas to a 1950 police report filed in Stalinist era Czechoslovakia. Demonstrating how this incident influenced Kundera's literary trajectory and ultimately contributed to his acclaim as a writer, von Kunes interprets his work in a new way"-- |
Carrier Form: | xv, 207 pages : 1 illustrations ; 24 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-186) and index. |
ISBN: |
9781498510806 1498510809 |
Index Number: | PG5039 |
CLC: | I565.074 |
Call Number: | I565.074/K964 |
Contents: | The author's identity unfolding -- If you see something, say something -- The suitcase, the bearer of all evil -- Czech destiny or fate? -- The betrayal -- Kundera's sexual politics? -- An example of interdisciplinary analysis. |