Milan Kundera Known and Unknown - Karen Von Kunes

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Milan Kundera's Multidimensionality and Interdisciplinarity
Karen von Kunes, Yale University, USA
Part I. Kundera Known in World Literature: Philosophical Reflections in His Writings
1. Remembering Milan Kundera and the Laughing God
Jason M. Wirth, University of Seattle, USA
2. An International Socialist Avant-Garde, or the Western Canon: Kundera's Early Reflections on World Literature
Mary Orsak, University of Oxford, UK
3. The Unbearable Lightness of the Self: An Essay in Seven Parts on Kundera's Immortality
Jason M. Wirth, University of Seattle, USA
Part II. Kundera Known Through Translation: Life Struggle with Retranslating
4. Kundera's Sophisticated, Euphonic, and Rhythmic Style in Translation, Language, and Reading
Michelle Woods, SUNY New Paltz, USA
5. Milan Kundera's Words: Variations on a Personal Lexicon
Charles Sabatos, Yeditepe University, Turkey
6. L?tost as Category of Existence in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
David S. Danaher, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
7. Milan Kundera and the Paradox of Translation
Harriet Hulme, University College Dublin, Ireland
Part III. Kundera Known : Exophonic Writer, French Essayist, and Novelist
8. Art is Elsewhere: The Festival of Insignificance as Milan Kundera's Farewell to Aesthetics
Zekiye Antakyalioglu, Istanbul Aydin University, Turkey
9. The Rhizome Unifying Milan Kundera's French Novels: Migration, Identity, Multilingualism
Karen von Kunes, Yale University, USA
10. Ontology and Universalism: The (Mis-)Appropriations of Milan Kundera in France and in the Czech Republic
Muriel Blaive, University of Graz, Austria
Part IV. Kundera Unknown: His Ideological Poetry, His Drama, and TV Plays
11. Milan Kundera: The Lyrical Poet
Jan Cul?k, University of Glasgow, UK
12. Poems of Bitter Loves: The Early Poetry of Milan Kundera
Michal Bauer, University of South Bohemia in Cesk? Budejovice, Czechia, translated from Czech by Ashley Davies, edited and adapted to English by Karen von Kunes
13. Historiography of Kundera's Four Dramatic Plays
Lenka Jungmannov?, Institute for Czech Literature at the Prague Academy of Sciences, Czechia, translated from Czech by Peter Gaffney
14. The Theater of the Absurd in Milan Kundera's Two Plays
Jan Cul?k, University of Glasgow, UK, and Karen von Kunes, Yale University, USA
Afterword - Milan Kundera's Warning of Upcoming Tragedy: The Reinvention of Central Europe
Jacques Rupnik, Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales-CERI, France, translated from French by Constance Sherak

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