Počátky recepce Kunderova díla ve Francii

• Authors: Suchomelová Lenka

Title variants

EN

Beginning of Kundera's work reception in France

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The article describes the reception of the since it’s beginning in 1957 until his resettlement to France in 1975. Its text largely attends to the reception of the novel The Joke which opened the door into French literary world for Kundera not only for it’s unexceptionable qualities but also because of the circumstances of it’s publication. The article also displays the beginning of political interpretation of Kundera’s books which he will try to shake of himslef in following decades. The article shows the popularity of Kundera’s work in France in the beginning of the 70’s when he is perceived as a dissident, a witness to the life behind the iron curtain and at the same time as the point of reference for almost every mention about Czechoslovak culture. Except for The Joke, the article is also dedicated to the reception of The Owners of the Keys, Laughable Loves or the novel Life is Elsewhere.

Keywords

EN

Milan Kundera; reception; France; The Joke; interpretation

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 58
• Pages: 123-140

Contributors

author

Suchomelová Lenka

• Univerzita Karlova