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Much of the debates in this book revolves around Milan Kundera and his 1984 essay “The Tragedy of Central Europe.” Kundera wrote his polemical text when the world was pregnant with imminent social and political change, yet that world was still far from realizing that we would enter the last decade of the twentieth century with the Soviet empire and its network of satellite states missing from the political mappages Kundera was challenged by Joseph Brodsky and György Konrád for allegedly excluding Russia from the symbolic space of Europe, something the great author deeply believes he never did. To what extent was Kundera right in assuming that, if to exist means to be present in the eyes of those we love, then Central Europe does not exist anymore, just as Western Europe as we knew it has stopped existing? What were the mental, cultural, and intellectual realities that lay beneath or behind his beautiful and graceful metaphors? Are we justified in rehabilitating political optimism at the beginning of the twenty-first century? Are we able to reconcile the divided memories of Eastern or Central Europe and Western Europe regarding what happened to the world in 1968? And where is Central Europe now?

Civilization. --- Politics and government. --- Barbarism --- Civilisation --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Culture --- Kundera, Milan --- Kundera, Milan. --- Kountera, Milan --- Кундера, Милан --- קונדרה, מילן --- كوندرا، ميلان --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Since 1989 --- Heisei Period (Japan) --- Europe, Central --- Europe, Central. --- History. --- 쿤데라, 밀란 --- クンデラ, ミラン

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The critical, emotional and intellectual change which every immigrant is obliged to endure and confront is experienced with singular intensity by immigrant writers who have also adopted another language for their literary expression. Concentrating on European authors of the second half of the twentieth century who have chosen French as a language for their literary expression, and in particular the novels by Romain Gary, Agota Kristof, Milan Kundera and Jorge Semprun, with reference to many others, European Literary Immigration into the French Language explores some of the common elements in these works of fiction, which despite the varied personal circumstances and literary aesthetics of the authors, follow a similar path in the building of a literary identity and legitimacy in the new language. The choice of the French language is inextricably linked with the subsequent literary choices of these writers. This study charts a new territory within Francophone and European literary studies in treating the European immigrants as a separate group, and in applying linguistic, sociological and psychoanalytical ideas in the analysis of the works of fiction, and thus represents a relevant contribution to the understanding of European cultural identity. This volume is relevant to French and European literature scholars, and anyone with interest in immigration, European identity or second language adoption.

French literature --- French literature. --- History and criticism. --- Foreign authors. --- Gary, Romain --- Kristof, Agota --- Kundera, Milan --- Semprún, Jorge --- Gary, Romain. --- Kristof, Agota. --- Kundera, Milan. --- Semprún, Jorge. --- Semprun, Ḥorheh --- Semprún y Maura, Jorge --- Maura, Jorge Semprún y --- Semproun, Chorche --- סמפרון, חורחה --- Semprún Maura, Jorge --- Sánchez, Federico, --- Kountera, Milan --- Кундера, Милан --- קונדרה, מילן --- كوندرا، ميلان --- Кристоф, Агота --- クリストフ, アゴタ --- Ajar, Emile --- Gari, Roman --- Gari, Romen --- Gārī, Rūman --- Kacew --- Kacew, Romain --- Kacewgari, Romain --- Kassef, Romain --- Ajar, Émile, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- 1900-1999 --- 쿤데라, 밀란 --- クンデラ, ミラン --- Semprun, Jorge

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Exile (Punishment) in literature. --- Exiles in literature. --- Memory in literature. --- Exile (Punishment) in literature --- Exiles in literature --- Memory in literature --- Languages & Literatures --- Slavic, Baltic and Albanian Languages & Literatures --- Memory as a theme in literature --- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, --- Kundera, Milan --- Kountera, Milan --- Кундера, Милан --- קונדרה, מילן --- كوندرا، ميلان --- Sirin, Vladimir, --- Sirin, Vl. --- Sirin, V. --- Nabokoff-Sirin, Wladimir, --- Sirin, Wladimir Nabokoff-, --- Nabokov, Vladimir, --- Shishkov, Vasiliĭ, --- Набоков, Владимир Владимирович, --- Набоков, Владимир, --- נאבוקוב, ולאדימיר ולאדימירוביץ׳, --- נאבוקוב, ולאדימיר, --- נבוקוב, ולדימיר, --- 納布可夫, --- Godunov-Cherdynt︠s︡ev, Fedor --- Criticism and interpretation. --- 쿤데라, 밀란 --- クンデラ, ミラン