The Book of Imitation and Desire: Reading Milan Kundera with Rene Girard

by Trevor Cribben Merrill

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Trevor Cribben Merrill offers a bold reassessment of Milan Kundera's place in the contemporary canon. Harold Bloom and others have dismissed the Franco-Czech author as a maker of "period pieces" that lost currency once the Berlin Wall fell. Merrill refutes this view, revealing a previously unexplored dimension of Kundera's fiction. Building on theorist Ren Girard's notion of "triangular desire," he shows that modern classics such as The Unbearable...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:162892523X

ISBN13:9781628925234

Release Date:October 2014

Publisher:Bloomsbury Academic

Length:208 Pages

Weight:0.56 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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