Characteristics of works
Main idea
Love, death, happiness and sadness, these common themes can be found in various situations and media in our daily life. Milan Kundera has made a profound exploration of each of the above themes by building a profound spiritual connection between his characters and readers. Kundera often puts himself in novels and interacts with his own creation; Similarly, he also invited our readers to participate in it and asked them to establish contact with the characters in his works. Throughout Kundera's novels, there is an important theme that he shouted loudly: life is just a question of where to go and where to come from. In several of his novels, Kundera explained this theme from several different directions; Through Kundera's philosophy-oriented method, these interpretation processes touch on the conceptual problems of human life.
The reason why he can describe the theme and characters so deeply in each novel and use such profound knowledge in the writing process lies in his own personal experience. The best example of his personal experience of his characters is his novel Ignorance. Kundera, like Irena and Joseph, left his hometown Czech Republic and, like Irena, moved to France, where he lived for about 30 years. His personal experience is integrated into his novels and has a deep connection with the characters in the books, which helps to make the scenes in his novels more real in the eyes of readers. As a writer deeply influenced by others, Kundera also draws inspiration from places outside his personal life; He created some works around the thoughts of Austrian writer Robert Museler and German philosopher friedrich nietzsche. Muzil's most famous novel The Man Without Personality is similar to some works of Kundera. The Man Without Personality examines the decline of social morality and intelligence, and observes the psychological life and spiritual life of many characters. Nietzsche focuses on the theory of eternal samsara and "the heaviest burden", which is also an important theme of The Unbearable Lightness of Life. The combination of this influence from the outside world and his own life further increases the depth of the theme of Kundera's works.
Narrative skills
Milan Kundera pays great attention to the choice of story perspective and time perspective in her novels. Traditional narrative is generally nothing more than the first and third person narrative, even if there is a second person narrative occasionally, it is only a variant of the first two person narrative. Milan Kundera is different in the choice of narrator. However, Milan Kundera can create a very special effect when telling stories in the first or third person. The occurrence of the story is synchronized with the author's writing and the reader's reading, which constitutes a synchronic state, thus giving the work an unprecedented sense of realism and a "live" sense of "presence".
Milan Kundera is a faithful believer in Tuo's polyphonic novels and a firm practitioner of polyphonic theory. "Polyphony" narrative or "multi-voice" narrative is a narrative technique that Milan Kundera is very obsessed with and very handy to use.
Milan Kundera often picks up stories of people of different times and types and rubs them into his novels, telling two or even several stories at the same time. In his works, history and reality, truth and fiction are mixed together and can be disassembled or assembled at will. Divided into separate stories and assembled into a poetic "polyphonic" novel.
For Milan Kundera, the choice of narrative form of novels is his painful pursuit, which also brings him the joy of creation. It should be said that his pursuit is fruitful. He provided a brand-new experiment for novel narration. His synchronic narrative mode and polyphonic narrative mode respectively establish the time sequence and logical framework for the text story from the perspective of the narrator's perception and the protagonist's discourse. The difference between narrative voice and language makes the work realistic in form and content. Milan Kundera's dream narration was inspired by Kafka, Joyce and Proust. But Milan Kundera is as fascinated and familiar with it as his teachers. Its clever use makes Milan Kundera's novels gain a hazy aesthetic mood, and also makes his novels with existentialism find a shortcut close to the theme of the novel. Because it is not only a vague aesthetic concept, but also a simulated portrait of the living state in the eyes of existentialists.
Theme of the work
1, kitsch Vulgarity is a complete denial of worthless existence. Not vulgar, not to please the public. Kitsch more accurately means "melodramatic", and you should always give legitimacy to your emotions. Crying is not because of sadness, but to express sadness; Laughing is not because you are happy, but because you should feel happy, which is a manifestation of human boredom.
2. Classical music. Kundera likes to write novels by composing music. In order to compose philosophy, narrative and ideal into the same song, his novels pay special attention to the melody coordination between content and theme. Reading his novels by listening to classical music, you will find that he has achieved the equality between different elements and the indivisibility of the whole, just like a perfect fugue.
3. Psychological realism. Kundera uses psychological realism to make readers care more about the thinking process of characters than their appearance, because Kundera not only puts himself in the novel to interact with creation, but also invites readers to participate in it and establish contact with the characters in his works. He firmly believes that the imagination of readers can automatically supplement the imagination of authors.