Professional paper
Kundera’s Recognized Heritage – On Milan Kundera’s Essays
Aleksandra Korda Petrović
; The Faculty of Philology
Abstract
Milan Kundera wrote essays throughout his creative period, from the 1950s until he stopped publishing. In his essays, he intertwines his memories, impressions and feelings with the deliberations on questions and the nature of art, often varying the same topic and using similar examples from literature and music. He also wrote his essays in Czech and French, and after the 1990s, he translated his essays originally written in French into Czech, adapted them and republished them through Czech publishers. The analytical and critical perspective in Kundera’s essays is often tinted with irony, sarcasm and paradoxes and invites the reader to engage in dialogue and discussion. Apart from containing the potential answers to complex questions and problems of modern theory of literature and arts, sociology of arts, aesthetics and ethics, the essays of this author most certainly represent a reliable key for understanding and interpretation of Kundera’s novels
Keywords
Milan Kundera; essay; writing about the art of the novel; about Europe; about homeland; about art
Hrčak ID:
324704
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Publication date:
20.12.2024.
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