El arte de la novela ante la trampa del mundo: apuntes sobre la poética de la novela de Milan Kundera frente a la crisis de la modernidad

Abstract

This is an invitation-introduction to the reader to approach to the novels of the Czech writer Milan Kundera (Brno, 1929-), especially, The Joke (1967), Laughable Loves (1969), Life is Elsewhere (1969), The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1978), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) and Immortality (1988). Therefore, this is not an exhaustive study of such pieces, but rather a general hypothesis that aims to explain its production as an aesthetic reaction to the crisis of modern values. Likewise, this text aims to comprehend novel as an investigative instrument of human existence and especially as a particular way of present a playful and lucid interpretation of some problems that supposes the experience of the postmodern world.