L’écriture de l’ironie et la crise des valeurs dans L’insoutenable légèreté de l’être de Milan Kundera
The writing of irony and the crisis of values in The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Author(s): Atmane Bissani
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, French Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Junimea
Keywords: Value crisis' irony; modern times; postmodernity; kitsch; Milan Kundera;
Summary/Abstract: In the present contribution, we aim at dealing with the value crisis as an immediate consequence of the crisis of modernity in the industrialised countries, starting from the part that irony plays as a critical and satirical stylistic device in relation to the Modern Times man and world. Our point of departure in this approach is the novel L’insoutenable légèreté de l’être (1989) by Milan Kundera, a text particularly emblematic of what the Modern Times man is, as well as of what one’s swift turnaround towards the kitsch in the age of technology is.

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