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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Kundera"”.
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Irreconcilable Oppositions: "<em>Es Muss Sein</em>" and <em>The Unbearable Lightness of Being</em>
<p>Milan Kundera's <em>The Unbearable Lightness of Being</em> is a novel written in response to the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's myth of eternal return. Through questioning Nietzsche's myth, Kundera creates an existential framework that rejects eternal return and illustrates his …
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O desencanto da história em A insustentável leveza do ser (1984) - sobre literatura e sociedade
… the fictional universe created by Milan Kundera in the novel The unbearable lightness of being (1984), considering the multiple relationships established between literature and society. In the artistic-literary context, the kundera´s work appears as an aesthetic solution to the …
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Slowness, Identity and Ignorance: Milan Kundera’s French Variations
… three academically neglected novels by Milan Kundera: Slowness (1995), Identity (1998) and Ignorance (2002). Originally written in French, the author’s second language, after six novels, a short-story collection and a play originally written in Czech, these texts are often bracketed off from …
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Lightness of Being and the Burden of Gravity
… influences, such as the writings of Milan Kundera and Jorge Luis Borges, and the work of artists Masao Yamamoto, James Turrell, and Ann Hamilton.
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On Someone Else's Dime
… united by theme, this is, according to Milan Kundera, "perfectly sufficient” to create polyphony, which reinforces the notion that all of my characters are victims of their surroundings and exhibit patterned behavior. While my characters are not connected, within each story they do form what …