Original scientific paper
"The Call of the Game" as the Ultimate Call of Freedom in the Function of the Immortality of the Novel
Ivana Kočevski
; University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology
Abstract
In this article, we present Milan Kundera as a novelist and novel lover through the writer's pronounced anti-lyrical stance and the art of the novel in the context of the writer's theoretical reflections. The Call of the Game is just one of Kundera's four calls to explain the anatomy of the immortality of the novel as an art sui generis. The Call of the Game refers directly to the writer's narrative process itself, which he applies in the text of the novel through variation, but the variation can also be a variation of the narrative form itself, i.e. another literary genre, be it an essay, a biography, a dramatic dialogue, a philosophical essay, all of which can be included in a chapter or in the novel as a whole. With this approach, the author abandons the established rules insisted upon in the official Czech literature of social realism in the period after 1948 and 1968, and The Call of the Game can be interpreted as the ultimate demonstration of freedom. Moreover, the game appears in the form of a whole spectrum of different motifs – as a game of identity transformation, a game of social deception, a game of provocation, a game of research, a game of seduction and the like, which also illustrates the limits of human freedom in many ways at the literary micro-level.
Keywords
Milan Kundera; novel; variation; ludic transcription; game; freedom
Hrčak ID:
324701
URI
Publication date:
20.12.2024.
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