Ve službách románu. Mario Vargas Llosa a Milan Kundera

• Authors: Poláková Dora

Title variants

EN

In the service of the novel. Mario Vargas Llosa and Milan Kundera

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Mario Vargas Llosa and Milan Kundera are eminent novelists and literary theorists and critics. They both acknowledge their debt to Miguel de Cervantes, whose Don Quixote they consider not only the first modern novel, but a symbol of Western civilization. The article focuses on their conception of the novel, the role of fiction and humor, and the possible death of the novel.

Keywords

EN

Milan Kundera; Mario Vargas Llosa; Miguel de Cervantes; novel; fiction

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: 141-148

Contributors

author

Poláková Dora

• Univerzita Karlova