Seminar Notes

Novel of Ideas

Significance for 'novel in general

Characters there solely to illustrate thesis?

Look at opening in detail - Nietzsche's 'eternal recurrence'; cf Groundhog Day?

how do 'heaviness' and 'lightness' play out in the novel?

Questions of monogamy and commitment, e.g. p.21, no. 10. (cf Kierkegaard on marriage; Repetition)

p.121 - 122 Betrayals/meaning. ff - news of Tomas and Tereza's death - effect of having this news here? on meaning and ends?

p.147 Petrin Hill (or 150) - cf Josef K's death?

Kundera's representation of women - cf Blood of Others; definition of 'woman', p.89.