The Book of Imitation and Desire Reading Milan Kundera with René Girard 1st Edition by Trevor Cribben Merrill 1441120359 9781441120359

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Author: Trevor Cribben Merrill 

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 René 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.

The Book of Imitation and Desire Reading Milan Kundera with René Girard 1st table of contents:

1 “Women Look for Men Who Have Had Beautiful Women”
2 Into the Labyrinth of Values
The transfiguration of the object
Metamorphoses of Kristyna
“An imitation of feeling”
3 From Imitation to Rivalry
The shift from admiration to envy
Deceit, desire, and the plight of the aging Don Juan
Rivalry and the transfiguration of the object
“The younger sister imitated the elder”
Publish or perish
4 The Model as Obstacle
Strategies of revelation
The art of polyphonic comparison
A little theory of resentment
Litost in the underground
5 Jealousy and its Metaphors
The game gone awry
The metaphors of jealousy
“A test that gauged her susceptibility to seduction”
6 The Quadrille of Desire
Sex as theater
Acute rivalry and homosexual attraction
The geometry of sadomasochism
7 At the Heart of the Labyrinth
“The thousand-headed dragon”
“The cement of their brotherhood”
The two temptations
“The absolute denial of shit”
First time as tragedy, second time as farce
8 Repudiating the Model
Eduard’s smile
From hatred to compassion
Karenin’s smile
The birth of a novelist
Liberating exiles
9 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

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