Commiserating with Devastated Things

M. Wirth Jason

Description

Commiserating with Devastated Things seeks to understand the place Milan Kundera calls "the universe of the novel." Working through Kundera's oeuvre as well as the continental philosophical tradition, Wirth argues that Kundera transforms-not applies-philosophical reflection within literature.Reading between Kundera's work and his self-avowed tradition, from Kafka to Hermann Broch, Wirth asks what it might mean to insist that philosophy does not have a monopoly on wisdom, that the novel has its own modes of wisdom that challenge philosophy's.

Sujets

• Eastern Europe
• Literary theory

Informations

• Publié par: Fordham University Press
• Date de parution: 20 octobre 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780823268214
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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