The book of imitation and desire : reading Milan Kundera with René Girard
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The book of imitation and desire : reading Milan Kundera with René Girard
Bloomsbury Academic, 2013
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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 Rene Girard's notion of "triangular desire," he shows that modern classics such as The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting display a counterintuitive-and bitterly funny-understanding of human attraction.
Most works of fiction (and most movies, too) depict passionate feelings as deeply authentic and spontaneous. Kundera's novels and short stories overturn this romantic dogma. A pounding heart and sweaty palms could mean that we have found "the One" at last-or they could attest to the influence of a model whose desires we are unconsciously borrowing: our amorous predilections may owe less to personal taste or physical chemistry than they do to imitative desire.
At once a comprehensive survey of Kundera's novels and a witty introduction to Girard's mimetic theory, The Book of Imitation and Desire challenges our assumptions about human motive and renews our understanding of a major contemporary author.
目次
Foreword by Andrew McKenna
Author's Preface
I. "WOMEN LOOK FOR MEN WHO HAVE HAD BEAUTIFUL WOMEN"
II. INTO THE LABYRINTH OF VALUES
1. The Transfiguration of the Object
2. Metamorphoses of Kristyna
3. "An Imitation of Feeling"
III. FROM IMITATION TO RIVALRY
1. The Shift from Admiration to Envy
2. Deceit, Desire, and the Plight of the Aging Don Juan
3. Rivalry and the Transfiguration of the Object
4. "The Younger Sister Imitated the Elder"
5. Publish or Perish
IV. THE MODEL AS OBSTACLE
1. Strategies of Revelation
2. The Art of Polyphonic Comparison
3. A Little Theory of Resentment
4. Litost in the Underground
V. JEALOUSY AND ITS METAPHORS
1. The Game Gone Awry
2. The Metaphors of Jealousy
3. "A Test That Gauged Her Susceptibility To Seduction"
VI. THE QUADRILLE OF DESIRE
1. Sex as Theater
2. Acute Rivalry and Homosexual Attraction
3. The Geometry of Sadomasochism
VII. AT THE HEART OF THE LABYRINTH
1. "The Thousand-Headed Dragon"
2. "The Cement of their Brotherhood"
3. The Two Temptations
4. "The Absolute Denial of Shit"
5. First Time As Tragedy, Second Time As Farce
VIII. REPUDIATING THE MODEL
1. Eduard's Smile
2. From Hatred to Compassion
3. Karenin's Smile
4. The Birth of a Novelist
5. Liberating Exiles
IX. TOMAS IN COLONUS, OR THE WISDOM OF THE NOVEL
Postscript: A Response to Elif Batuman
Appendix: A Brief Overview of Kundera's Life and Works
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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