milan kundera from the joke to insignificance

Kundera snaps from the history of the USSR such a “funny story” which allows to highlight the spirit of the era. This is the reason for the peculiarities of the narration and minimization of the form. The foundation for the new novel was built on the anecdotes about Stalin and his entourage. Kundera gives preference to the peripheral before the the nuclear, to the marginal before the central and so on. Presenting a new approach to the image of a person in a new novel, M. The sacralization of everyday life in modern literature canonizes secondary figures and ideas. The mechanism of such poetization often reminds the structure of anecdotes, which undergo an excess growing of the text to such extend that even the essence of the anecdoting pattern, laid in the foundation can stay unnoticed by the reader. Kundera poetize the secondary figures regarding the “axial time” of their age. The novels “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”, “The Joke” and others by M. The series of images in Kundera's novel has nothing to do with the process of simulacrization of the postmodernism era. In particular, it is about the decline and rethinking of the postmodern category of “simulacrum”, which hardly depended on reality and eventually lost touch with it all. Summary/Abstract: The article includes analysis of the latest novel by Milan Kundera “The Festival of Insignificance” with a focus on changes in poetics. Published by: Чернівецький національний університет імені Юрія Федьковича Keywords: novel-anecdote character peripheral image poetics of the secondary image game episodic character controversial motif loss of identity identity Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, French Literature, Theory of Literature Poetics of Scantiness in the Milan Kundera’s Novel “The Festival of Insignificance” Author(s): Tetiana Bovsunivska

Milan kundera from the joke to insignificance