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Milan Kundera's Fiction
A Critical Approach to Existential Betrayals
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2019
Summary
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 Dvořáček to the police, resulting in Dvořáček’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.
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Edition
1/2019
Copyright Year
2019
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-1080-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-1081-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
207
Product Type
Monograph
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Contents No access
Foreword No access
Acknowledgments No access
Stylistic Notes No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 4
1 The Author’s Identity Unfolding No access Pages 5 - 18
2 If You See Something, Say Something No access Pages 19 - 42
3 The Suitcase, the Bearer of All Evil No access Pages 43 - 72
4 Czech Destiny or Fate? No access Pages 73 - 104
5 The Betrayal No access Pages 105 - 142
6 Kundera’s Sexual Politics? No access Pages 143 - 164
7 An Example of Interdisciplinary Analysis No access Pages 165 - 180
