Milan Kundera's Text Games And Politics - Ethical Anxiety

Milan Kundera is one of the most famous European writers in 1960s. The paper aims to begin with Kundera's novel-game-form and game-spirit, and analyze combined with the author's personal experience and political events, then unveil his heavy political-ethics anxiety which hide behind this kind of text game.The paper contains five parts to discuss this question. The first part is introduction, in this part, Kundera's biography and literature creation are introduced, and so is the research condition about him in our country. The second part is the relationship among Kundera, Reason of Enlightenment and Modernity. In this part, I explain the representation and introspection to Reason of Enlightenment tradition and Modernity, by analyzing Kundera's different opinions towards Dostoeusky and Diderot in the preface of his own book Jacques and His Master. In the third part, postmodernist novel-game of Kundera, the characteristics of game-spirit and text game in Kundera's novels are analyzed. The forth part is the political-ethics anxiety behind the novel-game spirit. And in this part, the serous nature will be unveiled combined his personal political experience--- the thinking to political-ethics trap that humans are facing to, Conclusion, through analyzing the novel-game spirit and political-ethics anxiety of the text of Milan Kundera's novel, I think that his novels show a kind of hard changing process from modernity pursuing significance to post-modernity deconstruction significance.