Césure et sublime

• Authors: Marek Bieńczyk
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Having written The Joke, Kundera changed the modus vivendi of the novel’s narrator who, with time, became a separate protagonist. This is connected with the appearance of the ellipsis as the main plot device, which is not yet present in The Joke. This change in the way of narrating represents another and, perhaps, a deeper dividing line in Kundera’s writing than switching to another language (from Czech to French), the change of the setting (from Czechoslovakia to Western countries) and the change of the political system (from communist to ‘imagological’) as an instrument of oppression.

Keywords

EN

Kundera; novel; narrator; sublimeness; story; ellipsis

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Czytanie Literatury. Łódzkie Studia Literaturoznawcze
• Year: 2019
• Issue: 8
• Pages: 327-331

Dates

published

2019-12-30

Contributors

author

Marek Bieńczyk

• Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Literary Research

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9411-8389

Identifiers

DOI

10.18778/2299-7458.08.29