Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 09:00:14 +1100 From: Darren Smith <darren.smith-AT-unsw.edu.au> Subject: Kundera & the Death of the Author It seems that Milan Kundera, in his non-fiction work "The Art of the Novel", criticises the "frivolities" of Barthes, Foucault et al for misconceiving the novel. He argues, does he not, that the novel has an inherent "spirit" about it, a spirit of uncertainty. By placing the novel on the same playing field as everything else in life (in fact by reducing it to an intersection of discourses), the novel is forgotten. Kundera sees this as part of the "forgetting of being" that postmodernism is all about.
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