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"While a large amount of scholarship about Milan Kundera's work exists, in Liisa Steinby's opinion his work has not been studied within the context of (European) modernity as a sociohistorical and a cultural concept. Of course, he is considered to be a modernist writer (some call him even a postmodernist), but what the broader concept of modernity intellectually, historically, socially, and culturally means for him and how this is expressed in his texts has not been thoroughly examined. Steinby's book fills this vacuum by analyzing Kundera's novels from the viewpoint of his understanding of the existential problems in the culture of modernity. In addition, his relation to those modernist novelists from the first half of the twentieth century who are most important for him is scrutinized in detail. Steinby's Kundera and Modernity is intended for students of modernism in literary and (comparative) cultural studies, as well as those interested in European and Central European studies"--

Modernism (Literature) --- Existentialism in literature. --- Kundera, Milan --- Kountera, Milan --- Кундера, Милан --- קונדרה, מילן --- كوندرا، ميلان --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Europe --- Intellectual life --- 쿤데라, 밀란 --- クンデラ, ミラン

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Ethics and Aesthetics of Translation engages with translation, in both theory and practice, as part of an interrogation of ethical as well as political thought in the work of three bilingual European authors: Bernardo Atxaga, Milan Kundera and Jorge Semprún. In approaching the work of these authors, the book draws upon the approaches to translation offered by Benjamin, Derrida, Ricœur and Deleuze to highlight a broad set of ethical questions, focused upon the limitations of the monolingual and the democratic possibilities of linguistic plurality; upon our innate desire to translate difference into similarity; and upon the ways in which translation responds to the challenges of individual and collective remembrance.Each chapter explores these interlingual but also intercultural, interrelational and interdisciplinary issues, mapping a journey of translation that begins in the impact of translation upon the work of each author, continues into moments of linguistic translation, untranslatability and mistranslation within their texts and ultimately becomes an exploration of social, political and affective (un)translatability. In these journeys, the creative and critical potential of translation emerges as a potent, often violent, but always illuminating, vision of the possibilities of differentiation and connection, generation and memory, in temporal, linguistic, cultural and political terms.

Atxaga, Bernardo --- Atxaga, B. --- Irazu Garmendia, José --- Garmendia, José Irazu --- Irazu, Jose --- Irazu Garmendia, Joseba --- Translating and interpreting --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Kundera, Milan --- Semprún, Jorge --- Interpretation and translation --- Interpreting and translating --- Language and languages --- Literature --- Translation and interpretation --- Translators --- Translating --- 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 --- 쿤데라, 밀란 --- クンデラ, ミラン --- Atxaga --- Kundera --- Semprún --- translations --- interpretation

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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