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© 2018. This work is published under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.

Abstract

The historical challenges that this particular geographical and cultural area encountered are reflected in relation to a struggle to maintain a certain cultural identity, encumbered by the Soviet influence in Czechoslovakia. For the latter, (Kundera) the joke was the meaning of the world itself.] (29) In order to prevent insurgences when they occupied Czechoslovakia, the Russians have attacked Czech culture, not the media, since culture holds the most fundamental human values and has stirred in the past some of the revolts in Europe. [...]he is very much aware of his roots.] (1999: 87) Just like Elias Canetti, Karel Čapek, Bohumil Hrabal, Czeslaw Milosz, Danilo Kiš and Robert Musil, Kundera defies formal limits regarding literary species and discourses, thus combining the essay, a historical discourse and fiction. In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, characters are built around issues concerning weight versus lightness, soul versus body, woman, kitsch, compassion, music. [...]at one point when Tereza looks herself in the mirror, she recalls her past and her mother's, an opportunity for the narrator to introduce us to the body problem, as part of the complex existential code that defines this character.

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Title
Identity in The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Author
Stan, Cristina 1 

 Faculty of Letters, "Dunărea de Jos" University of Galaţi, Romania 
Pages
148-155
Publication year
2018
Publication date
2018
Publisher
Dunarea de Jos University Faculty of Letters Galati
ISSN
23930624
e-ISSN
23931078
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2395270443
Copyright
© 2018. This work is published under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.