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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Milan Kundera"”.
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THE LITOST-IDYLL FRAMEWORK IN MILAN KUNDERA’S WORK
Milan Kundera structures his novels through the thematic development of key terms. In The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Kundera explores the meaning of litost, an untranslatable Czech word that means “a state of torment created by the sudden sight of one’s own misery.” Litost relates to …
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O desencanto da história em A insustentável leveza do ser (1984) - sobre literatura e sociedade
… investigates 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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Lightness of Being and the Burden of Gravity
… and artistic 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
… strongly 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 …
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Slowness, Identity and Ignorance: Milan Kundera’s French Variations
… in detail 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 …