Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter One
Kundera, a European Novelist
Chapter Two
The Legacy of Cervantes
Chapter Three
Falling Out of History
Chapter Four
Unmasking, Thought, and Analysis in the Post-Proustian Novel
Chapter Five
The Thematic Structure of Kundera’s Novels
Chapter Six
The Sentimental and the Authentic Self
Chapter Seven
The Dangers of Forgetting and Laughter
Chapter Eight
Hedonism, Aestheticism, and Love as Modes of Authentic Sense Giving
Chapter Nine
Lightness and Death
Chapter Ten
The End of Modernity, the End of the Novel?
Works Cited
Index