Authenticity, temporality and the aesthetics of light writing in the unbearable lightness of being

• Main Author: Tan, Jeremy Sheng Ang
• Other Authors: Bede Tregear Scott
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/70383
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

As Italo Calvino observes, over the years and literary periods, “two opposite tendencies have competed in literature.” The thematic and structural significance of the novel is, on one hand, often constructed with a “weight, density and concreteness” which mirrors the gravity of everyday reality, whi...