The Czech cities from the exile: Milan Kundera
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Milan Kundera, exile, Czech cities, The Joke, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting.
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In this article we analyze the image that Milan Kundera offers of the Czech cities in two novels, The Joke, published in 1965 and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, whose publication cost him the loss of the Czech citizenship in 1981. The author describes dark, sad and dirty cities. This pessimistic vision of his homeland is opposite to his opinion on the Western cities, with which a clear contrast is established. In both novels historic events, personal livings and subjective opinions of the exiled author are reflected.Downloads
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Peñalta Catalán R. (2012). The Czech cities from the exile: Milan Kundera. Revista de Filología Románica, 339-352. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_RFRM.2011.38709
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