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Kingdom of Motives. Thematic analysis of Milan Kundera Novels

Publication |
2005

Abstract

The book brings forth a completely new methodological view of Kunderas novelistic writings: it avoids the analysis and further explanation of Kunderas own interpretation of his works and it also avoids using Kunderas prose as a means to illustrate the functionality of certain theories when applied to it. In an interpretation thus conceived, Milan Kundera is totally left aside in the aspect of him being a psychophysical being.

This means that the relationship between the author and his work and vice versa is also left aside along with the whole social and historical context. The basis of Ceskas approach lays in the consistent analysis of motives.

At the process of this analysis arise more or less coherent tufts and units of established associations of meaning. The work shows the way Kunderas novelistic world is set around certain central themes and at the same time it shows the way these themes are being shifted and transformed in the course of Kunderas novelistic worlds progress.

The themes acquire va