Karen Von Kunes

Milan Kundera's Fiction (eBook, ePUB)

A Critical Approach to Existential Betrayals

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 Dvorácek to the police, resulting in Dvorácek'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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498510813
• Artikelnr.: 56840031

Autorenporträt

Karen von Kunes is faculty member at Yale University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: The Author's Identity Unfolding
Chapter Two: If You See Something, Say Something
Chapter Three: The Suitcase, the Bearer of All Evil
Chapter Four: Czech Destiny or Fate?
Chapter Five: The Betrayal
Chapter Six: Kundera's Sexual Politics?
Chapter Seven: An Example of Interdisciplinary Analysis