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Milan Kundera's fiction : a critical approach to existential betrayals / Karen von Kunes.
Van Pelt Library PG5039.21.U6 Z75 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kunes, Karen von, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kundera, Milan.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Kundera, Milan--Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 207 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2019]
- Summary:
- "Karen von Kunes traces Milan Kundera's creative ideas to a 1950 police report filed in Stalinist era Czechoslovakia. Demonstrating how this incident influenced Kundera's literary trajectory and ultimately contributed to his acclaim as a writer, von Kunes interprets his work in a new way"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The author's identity unfolding
- If you see something, say something
- The suitcase, the bearer of all evil
- Czech destiny or fate?
- The betrayal
- Kundera's sexual politics?
- An example of interdisciplinary analysis.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Kunes, Karen von, author. Milan Kundera's fiction
- ISBN:
- 9781498510806
- 1498510809
- OCLC:
- 1081385766
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