This collection of essays offers crucial and luminous insights into one of the best-known Czech authors, Milan Kundera, including his lesser known works.
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Karen von Kunes is Assistant Professor teaching Czech and Slovak literature, film, and Czech language in the Department of Slavic & East European Languages & Cultures at the University of Toronto, Canada. Previously, she taught at Yale University, Harvard University, and the University of Texas, among other institutions. For nearly a decade, she published a column on Czech in The Prague Post. In the early 1990s, she proposed and founded the North American Association of Teachers of Czech (now International) and became its first Vice President and an editor of Czech Language News. In addition to her many publications and awards, including The Best 300 Professors in 2012 by The Princeton Review, Karen von Kunes belongs to the Circle of Scholars at Salve Regina University, is a Fellow of Yale's Jonathan Edwards College, and is affiliated with Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. She is author or coauthor, most recently, of Milan Kundera's Fiction: A Critical Approach to Existential Betrayals (2019) and Czech: An Essential Grammar (2021).
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. This collection of essays offers crucial and luminous insights into one of the best-known Czech authors, Milan Kundera, including his lesser known works.With essays that focus on Kunderas poetry and plays, his last four novels written in French, and his nonfiction writings on the novelistic form and translation, Milan Kundera Known and Unknown explores the complex and productive career of this globally recognized author. The approach begins by examining Kunderas distinctive literary style, and then how his voice radiated outward from the small communist country of Czechoslovakia to the world.Starting as a poet and playwright, Kundera transcended the Czech literary scene and rose to global prominence with his novelistic style of variations, paradoxes, humor, and clairvoyance into human relationships mixed with political tensions. His multi-dimensional existential topics introduced complex novelistic characters that have reached a large audience and remain evocative. Kundera also critically commented on creative works his own and of others thus contributing a unique approach to a specific aesthetic ideal and within the masterworks of world-renowned authors. Chapters on Kunderas aesthetics and form, his philosophical leanings, his relationship to the burgeoning concept of world literature, and translations of his writings offer new perspectives on his lifes work. These insights shed light on Kunderas understudied works, such as his early poetry and his recent French novels, making connections between his early and later writing, and cementing his literary legacy for English-language audiences. This collection of essays offers crucial and luminous insights into one of the best-known Czech authors, Milan Kundera, including his lesser known works. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798765109465
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