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Kundera’s typologies of immortality, love and chance: An encoded cultural theory

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2023-07-05

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No. 4 (2022): POLYTHESIS Filologia, Interpretazione e Teoria della Letteratura

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https://doi.org/10.13138/2723-9020/3279

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  • Matthias Freise

Abstract

Fourfold typologies at various levels govern the narrative structure of Milan Kundera's novel L’Immortalité. Besides giving the novel a semantic framework, they suggest deep analogies between the structure of love relationship, communication, epoch, and narration. They also demonstrate that social life and literary art are better understood by dividing their manifestations into four types. Immortality, therefore, turns out to be an in-deep cultural study.