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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Main Authors: Kunes, Karen von
Published: Lexington Books,
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.