《一个被劫持的西方或中欧的悲剧》是一代文学大师米兰·昆德拉生前最后授权出版的作品,收录作者早年创作的两篇思想文化随笔,曾产生广泛影响。
《文学与小国》是昆德拉在1967年捷克作家大会上发言的文字稿。昆德拉从捷克民族的悲剧性命运出发,探讨坚守小国文化特性的意义所在。
《一个被劫持的西方或中欧的悲剧》最初发表于1983年。在本文中,昆德拉继续探讨小国文化的重要性,以及它们的灭亡可能带来的灾难。他警告说,欧洲正在失去自身的文化认同感,真正的悲剧将是欧洲文化多样性的丧失。
作者简介
米兰·昆德拉(Milan Kundera,1929—2023),享誉世界的小说家、文学评论家。1929年出生于捷克斯洛伐克布尔诺,1975年起定居于法国。著有小说《玩笑》《生活在别处》《告别圆舞曲》《笑忘录》《不能承受的生命之轻》《不朽》《慢》《身份》《无知》《庆祝无意义》、短篇小说集《好笑的爱》、随笔集《小说的艺术》《被背叛的遗嘱》《帷幕》《相遇》、戏剧《雅克和他的主人》等总共十六部作品。1973年获美第奇外国小说奖,1985年获耶路撒冷文学奖,2001年获法兰西学院文学大奖,2020年获卡夫卡国际文学奖。
"A Hijacked Western or Central European Tragedy" is a generation of literary master Milan Kundera's last authorized work published, contains the author's early creation of two ideological and cultural essays, has had a wide impact.
Literature and Small States is a transcript of Kundera's speech at the 1967 Czech Writers' Congress. Starting from the tragic fate of the Czech nation, Kundera explores the significance of sticking to the cultural identity of a small country.
A Hijacked Tragedy in the West or Central Europe was originally published in 1983. In this article, Kundera goes on to explore the importance of the cultures of small states, and the disaster their demise could bring. He warned that Europe was losing its cultural identity and that the real tragedy would be the loss of Europe's cultural diversity.
About the author
Milan Kundera (1929-2023) was a world-renowned novelist and literary critic. Born in 1929 in Brno, Czechoslovakia, he has lived in France since 1975. His novels "Joke", "Life Elsewhere", "Farewell Waltz", "Laugh forget", "unbearable lightness of life", "Immortality", "Slow", "Identity", "ignorance", "Celebrating Meaninglessness", short story collection "Funny love", essay collection "The Art of fiction", "Betrayed Testament", "Curtain", "Encounter", drama "Jacques and his Master" a total of 16 works. He won the Medici Prize for Foreign Fiction in 1973, the Jerusalem Prize for Literature in 1985, the Academy de France Prize for Literature in 2001, and the Kafka International Prize in 2020.