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Course Description

Instructor: Katia Mitova.  “The novel’s spirit is the spirit of complexity,” writes the Czech-born French writer Milan Kundera in his essay on Cervantes. ”Every novel says to the reader: ‘Things are not as simple as you think.’ […] The novel’s spirit is the spirit of continuity: each work is an answer to preceding ones, each work contains all the previous experience of the novel.” The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) exemplifies Kundera’s vision of the genre of the novel and invites us – in conversation with Nietzsche’s concept of eternal return – to think of life as a one-time opportunity for choice, action, and reflection. Course code: BASC70224 Literature Philosophy

Course Outline

Reading List

Milan Kundera. The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Harper.
ISBN-13: 978-0061148521

Notes

For our first class, please read Parts I and II of The Unbearable Lightness of Being (pp. 1-78).

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