TY - BOOK ID - 77920433 TI - Kundera and modernity PY - 2013 SN - 1612492479 9781612492476 9781612492483 1612492487 9781557536372 1557536376 PB - West Lafayette, Indiana DB - UniCat KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - Existentialism in literature. KW - Kundera, Milan KW - Kountera, Milan KW - Кундера, Милан KW - קונדרה, מילן KW - كوندرا، ميلان KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Europe KW - Intellectual life KW - 쿤데라, 밀란 KW - クンデラ, ミラン UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77920433 AB - "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"-- ER -