Milan Kundera's Fiction Theory And Practice

The writer Milan Kundera(1929-), a descendant from Czech exiled to France in 1975, is a well-known contemporary novelist and fiction theorist across the world. Milan Kundera has a great number of works, and up to now, he has already created and published one collection of short stories, nine novels and three theoretical essays. It is no exaggeration to say that any of his novels has attracted wide attention in the world after its publication. His creation on novels has contributed to his winning numerous international literature rewards and nomination for Nobel Prize in Literature for many times.Foreign research on Milan Kundera set out in 1960s, which is relatively profound and comprehensive with extensive achivements nowadays. Domestic research on Milan Kundera began in the middle of 1980s, and overally, it is relatively profound but not comprehensive enough with certain space for promotion, though the research has gotten some achivements. What's more, Milan Kundera frequently creats new works, and his creation has the characteristic of unfinalizability. Therefore, the research today on him will be more comprehensive.Using text analysis and with the help of related criticism theory, the thesis firstly combs Milan Kundera's fiction theories and focuses on his fiction practice (fiction theme and style), then discusses inner relationship between the both above. Finally, the thesis concludes and affirms the contemporary significance of Milan Kundera's fiction theory and practice. The thesis is composed of four parts. The first part briefly introduces Milan Kundera's life and writing experience, and combs his identity. Moreover, the part also gives short evaluation on Kundera study in China. The second part combs Milan Kundera's fiction theory in terms of finction definition, value characteristic, form, history and future, and points out its limitation and significance. The third part makes a comprehensive research on Milan Kundera's fiction practice from the angle of theme and style, pointing out that his novels have explored many possibilities of "being" and drew "the picture of being" with gloomy background but true interior for modern people, which reveals absurd living situation of modern people. Meanwhile, with unique polyphony structure, music and meditation feature, Milan Kundera's fiction style provides patterns for contemporary novels. The fourth part makes a whole research on Milan Kundera's fiction theory and practice, and discusses the inner relationship beween the both, pointing out that Milan Kundera's fiction theory is mostly from criticism and interpretation he makes to himself and others'novels.Thus his fiction theory have synchronization with his fiction practice. Meanwhile his fiction pratice is guided under his fiction theory and shoulders the historical mission of "the third time" fiction. In the meantime, this part concludes contemporary significance of Milan Kundera's fiction theory and practice, and assures his contributions to fiction. At the end, the thesis proposes a further expect on Milan Kundera and future research on him.