Milan Kundera’s View Of Humor

Milan Kundera, Czechish-French, uses a pleasant form-humor to show significanttopic: survival. In his novel world, humor is not only rhetoric, but also Milan Kundera’snovel concept。Except this, he put the philosophical proposition “existence” as thefoundation of his literary creation, excavating and revealing any possibility hiddenbehind people by Continuously discovering new forms of artistic expression, andinterpreting “Novel is about the existence of the poetic meditation”——a existentialistphilosophical proposition. This thesis starting from Milan Kundera’s existentialistphilosophy, use the unique wisdom and humor of novel as a special form of comedy todiscuss Milan Kundera’s idea of humor.This thesis centers on Milan Kundera’s concept of humor, which is divided intofour parts: the part1introduces the existential philosophy and Milan Kundera’sunderstanding of "existence" at first and existential philosophy is the philosophical basisof Milan Kundera’s theoretical research and artistic creation. Affected by Heidegger,Sartre and Jaspers, who are existentialist philosopher masters, Milan Kundera developedunique understanding of “existence”, that is people have different state in different era ordifferent the social situation, which restricted by various conditions.In part2Milan Kundera explores the concept “existence”, through novel, anancient writing style. Novel has the spirit of relativity, complexity and humor, at thesame time the novelist’s thinking is exploring, hypothetical and also relativity. All thesecharacteristics of novel are the same as Milan Kundera’s idea, which is “existence” hasvarious possibilities. Milan Kundera believes that novel is uncertainty and the relativityof novel can break the limitation on the person’s certainty, even help people understand“existence”. So novel is assumptions and games. Novel is the best way to explore“existence”, because of its unique wisdom.Part3is about Milan Kundera’s idea of humor and this part is the focus of thispaper. Humor is a special form of comedy, which is carried forward in Milan Kundera’snovel. He combined comedy with the serious thinking of human nature and history.When laugh, we can not only see the perverse world modern where humans live, but also can feel the importance of humor for the novel from the perspective of aesthetic. Thispart mainly discusses the emergence and development of humor and Kundera’sreinterpretation of humor. At the same time introduce characteristics of Kundera humorfrom these aspects: comely stories, Humorous language and relaxing philosophical logos.Part4is epilogue, which analyzes the practice of humor in literature, appreciatinggreat novelist’s unique sense of humor once again.