Kundera: A Romantic Philospher or a Philosophical Novelist? Exemplefied by Tereza's Narrative

Philosophy and Culture 38 (9):19-34 (2011)
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In the "Art of Fiction" , a book, the author Milan Kundera mentioned to promote Teresa the birth of the association sentence as follows: body, soul, dizziness, weakness, idyllic, paradise. For Thomas is: light and heavy. In the "Unbearable Lightness of life" duality of the novel text clear large-scale structure , the Teresa's life is an important narrative spools, to follow her development the reader will have many clues to explore the theme of the novel nuclear Hu. Trisha is rendered as two yuan for the victims of the conflict continue the narrative process, Kundera will "light" and "unbearable" link, it leads to understanding the paradox of meaning, first and foremost understand is All "light" referent, as "light" Why be "unbearable", you need the context of the novel to complete the series to explore. In the text structure, discourse and ridicule people on both sides of the fate of almost one historical context of discourse and the paradox of fiction is arranged to emphasize the way Kundera to be explained "the situation of human existence" the issue, and that It is by the novelist to the survival of the historical background to explain the philosophy of . In L'art du roman, Milan Kundera, the author, mentions the following associations about what leads to the birth of Tereza: body, soul, vertigo, weakness, idyll and paradise. The associations about Tomas are lightness and heaviness. In L ' insoutenable légèreté de l'être, Tereza's narrative of life is an important axis in the clearly dualistic macro-structure of the text of the novel. Following her development, the readers would have many clues to explore the central themes of the novel. In the narrative process of presenting how Tereza is repeatedly victimized by dualistic conflicts, Kundera associates "lightness" with "unbearable." In order to understand the paradoxical meaning it provokes, we must first understand all the references to "lightness;" as for why "lightness "becomes" unbearable, "it is a serial inquiry that must be made within the context of the novel. In the textual structure, the sarcastic discourses and the characters' destinies are almost the two sides of the same coin, as the paradoxical arrangements of the historical discourses and the situations in the novel are also explained emphatically by Kundera to shed light on the topic of "la circonstance existentielle", which is exactly "la philosophie de l'être" the novelist wishes to explicate through the historical background

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