The Book of Imitation and Desire: Reading Milan Kundera with Rene Girard

by Trevor Cribben Merrill

Book Overview

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 Ren Girard's notion of "triangular desire," he shows that modern classics such as The Unbearable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 162892523X
• ISBN13: 9781628925234
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"