Milan Kundera's Fiction: A Critical Approach to Existential Betrayals

by Von Kunes, Karen
ISBN: 9781498510820
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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.
  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Von Kunes, Karen
  • ISBN: 9781498510820
  • Condition: New
  • Number Of Pages: 224
  • Publication Year: 2022
Language: English