Novelistic Nostalgia: The Pleasure and the Pain

Novelistic Nostalgia: The Pleasure and the Pain

This article explores nostalgia in its creative/utopian as well as negative/pathological aspects, as reflected in novels by two contemporary authors: Milan Kundera and Mircea Cărtărescu. While nostalgia mostly perceived as a highly positive value clearly permeates Cărtărescu’s novel, in Kundera’s wr...

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Auteur principal: Pánková, Lenka
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Publié: TRANS- 2012
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:trans_615 https://doi.org/10.4000/trans.615 urn:doi:10.4000/trans.615 fr https://journals.openedition.org/trans/615 2012-07-25T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/ljoo All rights reserved Novelistic Nostalgia: The Pleasure and the Pain TRANS- Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1778-3887 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/trans Pánková, Lenka This article explores nostalgia in its creative/utopian as well as negative/pathological aspects, as reflected in novels by two contemporary authors: Milan Kundera and Mircea Cărtărescu. While nostalgia mostly perceived as a highly positive value clearly permeates Cărtărescu’s novel, in Kundera’s writing we observe a gradually developing violent rejection of this sentiment. Both Cărtărescu and Kundera display a need to return to their childhood/adolescent origins, albeit for opposing reasons: what the first wishes to symbolically re-create (restorative nostalgia), the latter desires to demolish with a supremely anti-nostalgic gesture.
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description This article explores nostalgia in its creative/utopian as well as negative/pathological aspects, as reflected in novels by two contemporary authors: Milan Kundera and Mircea Cărtărescu. While nostalgia mostly perceived as a highly positive value clearly permeates Cărtărescu’s novel, in Kundera’s writing we observe a gradually developing violent rejection of this sentiment. Both Cărtărescu and Kundera display a need to return to their childhood/adolescent origins, albeit for opposing reasons: what the first wishes to symbolically re-create (restorative nostalgia), the latter desires to demolish with a supremely anti-nostalgic gesture.
author Pánková, Lenka
spellingShingle Pánková, Lenka
Novelistic Nostalgia: The Pleasure and the Pain
author_facet Pánková, Lenka
author_sort Pánková, Lenka
title Novelistic Nostalgia: The Pleasure and the Pain
title_short Novelistic Nostalgia: The Pleasure and the Pain
title_full Novelistic Nostalgia: The Pleasure and the Pain
title_fullStr Novelistic Nostalgia: The Pleasure and the Pain
title_full_unstemmed Novelistic Nostalgia: The Pleasure and the Pain
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