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La Méditation sur la liberté inspirée de Kierkegaard et de Kundera s’interroge d’un point de vue existentiel sur la liberté. Elle cherche à comprendre pourquoi face à un choix un individu ne considère pas tous les possibles comme possibles. Sa première partie est basée sur Le concept d’angoisse, simple éclaircissement psychologique préalable au problème du péché originel par Kierkegaard et sa deuxième partie, ayant pour base théorique la première, s’appuie sur deux romans de Kundera : L’Immortalité et L’insoutenable légèreté de l’être. C’est à travers ces trois textes que la réflexion se développe autour de l’angoisse, qui rend possible la liberté, et de la légèreté, qui est un terme employé pour désigner le moment où l’homme se retrouve face à tous les possibles qui s’offrent à lui.

Diploma thesis "Milan Kundera's 'The Joke' supervised. Critical reception of the novel in the context of its release and today" deals with critical reflection of the novel 'The Joke' in the period from the end of the 1960's up to current reviews. The author dedicates first chapters to the cultural and political background of the release. The core of the thesis focuses mostly on critical reception of the novel, which is divided into three historical periods. In the first part of the critical historical analysis and qualitative analysis, the author examines critical acceptance of the novel in the aftermath of its release (1967- 1969), in the Czechoslovakian and exiled journals and literary magazines in particular. The second part considers critical reaction to the novel throughout 1970's and 80's, and stresses outcomes of the reception in the sixties, official normalized critical reviews and the acceptance in the exile and samizdat literature as well. Finally, the last part of the thesis offers contemporary critical response to 'The Joke', analyzed on the basis of journals, literary magazines and newly emergent Kundera's monographs. Summarizing critical reception in each period, historical context is of primary importance to a profound understanding of the topic. The aim of the thesis is to find out...

This dissertation deals with three selected French novels written by Milan Kundera: La lenteur, L´identité, L´ignorance. The aim is to make an analysis of these works, which are known as "the French cycle". We focus especially on the process of the construction of a narrative world (by using the semantics of fictional worlds and narratological concepts), as well as on the thematic level of these works. At the center of our dialogue with the novels is the question of whether they could create a real cycle, and what are the aspects that could connect them to each another. We also pay attention to the position of these works in the context of Kundera´s other writings.

Thesis Intertextuality in the work of Milan Kundera deals with intertextuality facets in his novels theoretically and practically. This work deals with the text and the relations between one and other - with intertextuality and with novel genre theories. I work with four important theorist, Michail Bachtin, Julia Kristeva, Gerard Genette and Roland Barthes. I examine their concepts of polyphony or Socratic dialogue and apply them on Kundera. Practical part explores Milan Kundera, intertextuality relation of his work his novelistic and theoretical approaches. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The diploma thesis Milan Kundera and Intertextuality deals with aspects of relations between the texts in his novels. The first part outlines the intertextuality, theory of the novel and the approaches of some literary theorists towards this issue. The second half of the thesis analyzes the intertextuality in Kundera's works in various forms, mainly based on the themes of dreams and physicality. The greatest emphasis is placed on examining the legacy of Kafka in the context of Kundera's works, particularly in the novels The Joke and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:58:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Aline Scavazini de Matos Galvao.pdf: 799182 bytes, checksum: b0ae9b94c388ef327ca21328dc62de0f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-11-26 / The aim of this research is to analyze how the form of the novel works the wandering theme in the novels of José Saramago and Milan Kundera, comparing them to the axis of the characters to answer the following questions: how the exile lived by characters (un)consacrates the image of wanderers? How this can give a new signification to the idea of identity, understood as a product of relation to the country they came from? Some hypothesis raised: the separation of homeland gives to the outcasts a critical and sensitive consciousness about the relationship between people and their land. The novel, as form of the transcendent homelessness, captures the wanderer with a new image and updates his critical view. The essayistic form, in both novels, contributes to the thematic discussion, being a compositional element of the works. As theoretical axis, we stand out the ideas of Lukács, Adorno and Walter Benjamin, as well critical texts of José Saramago and Milan Kundera as fundament to the creation of poetics of the novel. Regarding the wandering theme, we choose the studies of Michel Maffesoli and Édouard Glissant. The comparative method gave us a more in-depth debate about the wandering theme and how the novel forms echoes the contemporary dilemma regarding notions of identity and globalization. / O objetivo desta dissertação é analisar como a forma romanesca opera a temática da errância nas obras de José Saramago e Milan Kundera, comparando-as a partir do eixo das personagens, a fim de responder às seguintes questões: de que modo o desterro, vivenciado pelas personagens, (des)sacraliza a imagem do errante? Como isso pode ressignificar a concepção de identidade, entendida como produto da relação com a terra onde nasceram? Algumas hipóteses foram levantadas: o afastamento da terra natal leva os desterrados a uma consciência crítica e sensível sobre a relação entre o indivíduo e a terra; o romance, como forma do desterro transcendental, apreende o errante em nova imagem e atualiza sua identidade crítica; a questão ensaística, em ambos os romances, contribui para a discussão da temática, ao se apresentar como elemento de composição nas obras. Como eixo teórico sobre o gênero romanesco, destacamos as propostas de Lukács, Adorno e Walter Benjamin, além de utilizarmos textos críticos de José Saramago e Milan Kundera como base para a elaboração de uma poética do romance. Sobre a temática da errância, destacamos os estudos de Michel Maffesoli e Édouard Glissant. A escolha do método comparativo resultou em um aprofundamento da reflexão sobre a temática da errância e sobre a maneira como a forma romanesca reflete os dilemas da contemporaneidade em relação aos conceitos de identidade nacional e globalização

The subject of this thesis is an examination of the acquisition in language of a new country for three Eastern European writers exiled in France. For such writers, art and life become inseparable: just as the experience of geographical displacement liberates the writer so it liberates his language. This new language becomes a field of experimentation, in which the conflicts that precipitated exile are resolved. Departure necessitates the abandonment of the mother tongue: for Cioran, Romanian; for Kundera, Czech; for Makine, Russian. For each of these three writers, studied in this thesis, the adoption of French as the language of literary expression was a decisive act. Geographically and spiritually he and his text are redefined. Separated from familiar landmarks, each finds a new terrain in the language of the creative text, a place, a private space, in which to express the realities of his new self. On the one hand this new paradigm is the expression of a rejection of a past and a tradition; on the other hand it is essential in the process of coming to self-understanding. For Cioran, Kundera and Makine the French language provides a foil to their own ruptured, fragmented, traumatised or guilt-ridden native identities. In each case the adoption of French with its concomitant stereotypical qualities and values constitutes a dialectical process of coming to a clearer sense of self.

During the twentieth century, the former Czechoslovakia was at the forefront of Communist takeover and control. Soviet influence regulated all aspects of life in the country. As a result, many well-known political figures, writers, and artists were forced to flee the country in order to evade imprisonment or death. One of the more notable examples is the writer Milan Kundera, who fled to France in 1975. Once in France, the notion of exile became a prominent theme in his writing as he sought to expose the political situation of his country to the western world--one of the main reasons why he chose to publish his work in French rather than in Czech. This thesis analyzes the themes of language and memory in connection with exile in two of Kundera's novels, Le livre du rire et de l'oubli (1978) and L'Ignorance (2000). We contend that these concepts serve as anchors and tethers, stabilizing forces meant to help exiled characters recreate their identity outside of their homeland. By exploring notions of language and memory in these novels, Kundera demonstrates how the experience of exile affects the human condition during the latter half of the twentieth century.