Single Theme The Four-fold Variation

Make a comprehensive survey of Kundera's fictions,from The Joke,and his top work The Unbearable Lightness of Being, to the French trilogy, Slowness, Identity, Ignorance, we can feel the strong personal style of his works.First of all, Let's talk about the structure of his fictions. Kundera never narrate according to normal timing sequence, and you can find that the plots of his works are vague. Time and space are disordered. Meanwhile, he puts his philosophic essays into his narrating process, even make himself as a character who is in his fictions. Just like The Ignorance and Slowness.According to his attitude of The Art of Fiction, this is inherit or salute to Rabelais and Cervantes, Secondly, the characters in his works are very weird. What Kundera did is smashing the simulated tide which came down from 19 century with realism tradition, his characters get their inward logic, they have emotion, they have now and future, but they are not the center of his fictions, they just are the characters that Kundera uses to think and question the being. This image is an ego which is imaginary and experimental, they doesn't look like the person who is real, and he didn't borned by a woman, they were borned in a circumstance, a sentence, a metaphor. Simply, this metaphor is a basic humanbeing possibility."These characters are exaggerated and far away from the real people, however they can give us a great touch, because they seem to be the continuation of our dreams.Kundera researched lightness, heaviness, kitsch and many other profound propositions, and betrayal is the way which use by his characters to face the reality, to feel the being, to look for themselves. This paper will extract similarity from Kundera'books, The joke, The Farewell Waltz, Life Is Elsewhere, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Immortality, Identity, Ignorance, and we can make a characters series of betrayer as the way of"variation"which called by the author: libertine, chaste woman, man in kitsch and refugee. This paper explains the meaning of these betrayers with various works and theories, and it negatives the name, poetic contemplator, which is wore on Kundera's head by many scholars and admit he is a very cool spectator. No other than his wise and nihilistic values, makes his betrayers could not get out of the traps of the world.