| Milan Kundera's Fiction: A Critical Approach to Existential Betrayals Contributor(s): Von Kunes, Karen (Author) |
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ISBN: 1498510809 ISBN-13: 9781498510806 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $115.83 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Personality - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 891.863 |
| LCCN: 2019008343 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (1.10 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Miroslav Dvoř ček to the police, resulting in Dvoř ček's immediate arrest and sentencing to hard labor. von Kunes debunks this shocking charge in a systematic way and argues that Kundera reported a suitcase, not a man. She ties Kundera's 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. |