Kundera as Broch's Reader: the Novel as a Form of Knowledge

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.201953560

Keywords:

Kundera, Broch, Novel, Essay, Knowledge

Abstract

The purpose of the present study is to analyse the notion of "specifically novelistic essay" developed by Milan Kundera in his essays. This notion appears for the first time in The Art of the Novel (1986) linked to his interpretation of The Sleepwalkers from Hermann Broch and follows Broch's conception of the novel as a form of knowledge. The semantic shifts and alterations of Broch's novel poetics allow Kundera to adapt this model to his own idea of the novel, characterised by the new function of the essay form in the novel, which allows us to understand the novel as a form of reflection that can be an alternative to the scientific or philosophial way of thinking. 

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Published

2019-09-30

How to Cite

Llop Mangas, I. (2019). Kundera as Broch’s Reader: the Novel as a Form of Knowledge. Tropelías: Review of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, (5), 80–93. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.201953560