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The Book of Imitation and Desire: Reading Milan Kundera with Rene Girard Reading Milan Kundera with Rene Girard by Trevor Cribben Merrill is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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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 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
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Trevor Cribben Merrill
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781441120359
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, History, Literary Criticism
- Updated
- 2026-03-25