Kundera distinguishes his own work from the traditional “psychological novel” (which assumes a stable ego). Instead, he advocates for the – where the narrator does not know the answers. Characters are not psychological portraits but “experimental selves” put into situations. Think of Tomas in The Unbearable Lightness of Being : he is not a “real person” but a thought experiment on eroticism and freedom.
Analysis of Milan Kundera's The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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