Czech-French novelist whose The Unbearable Lightness of Being is one of the most read philosophical novels of the late 20th century, and who developed a sustained theory of the novel as a mode of knowledge.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Nietzsche's eternal recurrence as a frame for love and political life under communism. The novel as the art form of the ambiguous — it resists ideological certainty. The Art of the Novel: a collection of essays defending the novel's unique epistemological status. Kitsch: the absolute denial of shit — the refusal to acknowledge the unacceptable.
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