Milan Kundera’s immortality : a novel of lack and limited representation.

• Main Author: Siti Zahrah Syafiah Jailani.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/49610
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this study, I argue that Milan Kundera’s Immortality - as his exemplary notion of a ‘moral’ new novel - is a metaphor for lack in its endeavour of love in the Platonic tradition in response to the era of Knowledge and Modern Science; the morality of which though is largely undermined by the blata...