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Images of the Crowd in Milan Kundera's Novels: From Communist Prague to Postmodern France

Images of the Crowd in Milan Kundera's Novels: From Communist Prague to Postmodern France Images of the Crowd in Milan Kundera's Novels: From Communist Prague to Postmodern France Martha Kuhlman The Comparatist, Volume 25, May 2001, pp. 89-109 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2001.0011 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/415328/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 11:24 GMT from JHU Libraries ??? COHPAnATIST IMAGES OF THE CROWD IN MILAN KUNDERA'S NOVELS: FROM COMMUNIST PRAGUE TO POSTMODERN FRANCE Martha Kuhlman She would have liked to tell him that behind Communism, Fascism, behind all occupations and invasions lurks a more basic, pervasive evil and the image ofthat evil was a parade of people marching by with raisedfists and shouting identical syllables in unison. (100) "Parades" is one of the words in Sabina's "Short Dictionary of Misunder- stood Words" from Milan Kundera's 1984 novel The Unbearable Light- ness ofBeing (Nesnesitelná lehkost byti). Having been forced to march on May Day in Communist Czechoslovakia, Sabina will not participate in demonstrations of any description, even those in support of Prague Spring. Her French-educated lover Franz, by contrast, "saw the march- ing, shouting crowd as the image of Europe and its history" (99). Follow- ing Walter Benjamin, critics have studied representations of the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Comparatist University of North Carolina Press

Images of the Crowd in Milan Kundera's Novels: From Communist Prague to Postmodern France

The Comparatist , Volume 25 – Oct 3, 2012

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Images of the Crowd in Milan Kundera's Novels: From Communist Prague to Postmodern France Martha Kuhlman The Comparatist, Volume 25, May 2001, pp. 89-109 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2001.0011 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/415328/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 11:24 GMT from JHU Libraries ??? COHPAnATIST IMAGES OF THE CROWD IN MILAN KUNDERA'S NOVELS: FROM COMMUNIST PRAGUE TO POSTMODERN FRANCE Martha Kuhlman She would have liked to tell him that behind Communism, Fascism, behind all occupations and invasions lurks a more basic, pervasive evil and the image ofthat evil was a parade of people marching by with raisedfists and shouting identical syllables in unison. (100) "Parades" is one of the words in Sabina's "Short Dictionary of Misunder- stood Words" from Milan Kundera's 1984 novel The Unbearable Light- ness ofBeing (Nesnesitelná lehkost byti). Having been forced to march on May Day in Communist Czechoslovakia, Sabina will not participate in demonstrations of any description, even those in support of Prague Spring. Her French-educated lover Franz, by contrast, "saw the march- ing, shouting crowd as the image of Europe and its history" (99). Follow- ing Walter Benjamin, critics have studied representations of the

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