Spatial relocation and resettlement of identity in Milan Kundera’s work
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Milan Kundera, Identity, Space, Ontological questAbstract
In most of his novels, Milan Kundera depicts a constant back-and-forth between the Czech Republic and other countries, mainly in the West, through the travels of his characters. We question these centrifugal or centripetal im/migration flows (sometimes not going beyond the stage of a simple project) which seem to participate in the elaboration of a poetics that seeks to establish a communication network between spatial displacement and the refocusing of identity. Three axes seem to reveal the author’s questions around this issue: firstly, the question of exile and/or immigration as a pretext for evoking the rejection of the native country and the flight from others or from oneself; secondly, that of immigration in reverse, which looks at the loss and reclaiming of space as a revelation of individual identity; and thirdly, that of the demystification of common or community space to constitute a journey towards the reappropriation of the self. We start from this third axis in a study focused on the question of identity in some of his novels.
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