The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting Analysis
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The Language of Fiction in a World of Pain
Author: Barbara J. Eckstein
language: en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date: 1990-10
This book offers new and provocative readings of Milan Kundera's Book of Laughter and Forgetting, J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians and Life and Times of Michael K, selected short fiction of Nadine Gordimer and Grace Paley, Ibuse Masuji's Black Rain, John Hawkes's Travesty, and others.
The Book of Imitation and Desire: Reading Milan Kundera with Rene Girard
Author: Trevor Cribben Merrill
language: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date: 2013-03-14
Trevor Cribben Merrill offers a bold reassessment of Milan Kundera's place in the contemporary canon. Harold Bloom and others have dismissed the Franco-Czech author as a maker of “period pieces” that lost currency once the Berlin Wall fell. Merrill refutes this view, revealing a previously unexplored dimension of Kundera's fiction. Building on theorist René Girard's notion of “triangular desire,” he shows that modern classics such as The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting display a counterintuitive-and bitterly funny-understanding of human attraction. Most works of fiction (and most movies, too) depict passionate feelings as deeply authentic and spontaneous. Kundera's novels and short stories overturn this romantic dogma. A pounding heart and sweaty palms could mean that we have found “the One” at last-or they could attest to the influence of a model whose desires we are unconsciously borrowing: our amorous predilections may owe less to personal taste or physical chemistry than they do to imitative desire. At once a comprehensive survey of Kundera's novels and a witty introduction to Girard's mimetic theory, The Book of Imitation and Desire challenges our assumptions about human motive and renews our understanding of a major contemporary author.
Trevor Griffiths
Author: Stanton B. Garner
language: en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date: 1999
Assesses the contributions of one of the leading figures of post-1968 British political theater