Piscines et plages chez Kundera
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Piscines et plages chez Kundera. / Boisen, Jørn.
In: Revue Romane, Vol. 42, No. 2, 2007, p. 239–255.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Piscines et plages chez Kundera
AU - Boisen, Jørn
N1 - Numéro thématique : Le défi de la topologie littéraire. Sous la direction de Rémo Ceserani et Carsten Meiner
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Swimming pools, stricto sensu, are a newcomer in the gallery of western topoï, linked as they are to 20th century consumer culture. For obvious reasons they have become a recognized cinematographic topos, but - more surprisingly - they have also made their way to novel. For instance you find a lot of swimming pools in the novels of Milan Kundera. This is in fact quite astonishing. Kundera is not an author with a great sense of place. As far as descriptions and portraits are concerned, Kundera obeys a principle of maximum economy. However there are some exceptions to this rule, because sometimes objects and places can contribute to enlighten and explore what Kundera calls the existential code of the characters. The swimming pool is such a place. This purpose of this paper is to question the thematic concerns highligthened by the swimming pool. These concerns evolve around questions of sexuality, identity and nihilism in a mode that is much darker and more troubled than one would expect
AB - Swimming pools, stricto sensu, are a newcomer in the gallery of western topoï, linked as they are to 20th century consumer culture. For obvious reasons they have become a recognized cinematographic topos, but - more surprisingly - they have also made their way to novel. For instance you find a lot of swimming pools in the novels of Milan Kundera. This is in fact quite astonishing. Kundera is not an author with a great sense of place. As far as descriptions and portraits are concerned, Kundera obeys a principle of maximum economy. However there are some exceptions to this rule, because sometimes objects and places can contribute to enlighten and explore what Kundera calls the existential code of the characters. The swimming pool is such a place. This purpose of this paper is to question the thematic concerns highligthened by the swimming pool. These concerns evolve around questions of sexuality, identity and nihilism in a mode that is much darker and more troubled than one would expect
KW - Det Humanistiske Fakultet
KW - svømmebassin
KW - topologi
KW - litteratur
KW - Kundera, Milan
KW - swimming pool
KW - topology
KW - literature
U2 - 10.1111/j.1600-0811.2007.420204.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1600-0811.2007.420204.x
M3 - Tidsskriftartikel
VL - 42
SP - 239
EP - 255
JO - Revue Romane
JF - Revue Romane
SN - 0035-3906
IS - 2
ER -
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