Humor View Of Milan Kundera And Its Practical Research

In the novel theory of Kundera that is abundant,"humor" is indispensable. Humor isn’t just a rhetorical word, instead, it has a profound meaning. The "Kundera’s humor", which blends together the heaviness of things and the lightness of form, is full of questions about Beings. It tells us the "true" that the world can’t endure, which plays an important role in the history of literature and is worth researching. What’s more, it gives us wide enlightenment. There this paper will try to analyze the theory about humor view of Kundera both theoretically and practically, reflecting the deep texture of "Kundera’s humor" by comparing with the similar theories of other writers and with the mirror of era.This paper includes five parts. In the introduction, paper will introduce the background, origin, purpose and meaning of the topic, and will sort both domestic and overseas relational research. Besides, paper will describe the methods, ideas and innovations of the paper.The first chapter has three sections, in which the meaning of humor will be explained and expanded and its value in literature will be revealed. In the first section, the meaning of humor will be elaborated in detail, introducing its etymology and rheological meaning, comparing humor with some thesaurus like black humor and carnival. In the second section, the artistic skills and functions of humor will be analyzed. In the third section, paper will card status and value of humor in literature. In the history of western literature, humor literary has a long tradition, and marriage of humor and novel is not by chance, which is what Kundera tells us:"novel is born from humor".The second chapter, Kundera’s humor view will be analyzed in system and explored in depth. The first section will look back to Kundera’s humor view. His body, flowing with Czech cultural traditions of humor and European literary tradition of humor blood, gave birth to humor after he suffered perverse in the real world, while his personal music educational experience effected as well. As he saw, humor is "the art of laughter", which has significance in literature in postponing the trial of moral, and as an artistic spirit, it has certain comedy, which shares the same strain with Europe’s carnival spirit and comic tradition. The third section will analyze Kundera’s the spiritual core of humor view from existentialism and psychoanalysis. Humor plays a "existence detector" role, exploring the possibility of existence, also being haunted by the spirit of the return of nostalgia. In the text,"Kundera humor" often shows as "the existence code". In works about lust, love, games, Lacanian psychoanalysis often flashes.The third chapter will describe in detail his practice of humor view in works. As an artistic skill, humor presents in Kundera’s work as form of banter, dislocation, and self-deprecating; as an artistic spirit, humor is reflected in Kundera’s works by his main three elements:political, religious and sex. Kundera’s humor view in literary theory way and practice way has a mirror effect:interpreting each other, shining each other.The forth chapter will compare Kundera’s theory of humor view with three other renowned writers. Compared with Calvino’s "lightness", it’s quite similar in intellectual confrontation with reality and combination of "lightness and heaviness", but they have a certain distinction in the quest for meaning and form. Compared with Bakhtin’s carnival theory, it learned a lot from the carnival spirit, and they have common in spiritual core, style, question, but Kundera did make some development. Compared with Haek’s "black humor", their times context and absurd forms are relatively similar, but Kundera kept moving on after he inherited Kafka and Haek. He revealed a lot of possibilities to illuminate existence of the pioneer work which was under suspect:Kundera’s humor is metaphysical.The fifth chapter will discuss difficulties and modern revelation faced by Kundera humor view, In the Western world and even China, misreading is hidden behind "Kundera hot", and Kundera humor itself also faces "Politicized","Moral Blur","Relativity" and other aspects. Nevertheless, it still has a distinctive modernity, arriving considerable depth of existence exploration, having important implications to novel writing and literary study.Paper summarized after through the above argument:Kundera’s humor is different from Calvino, Bakhtin, Hasek and others related theory, is for the European humor literature tradition, inherit and carry forward the spirit of carnival. Kundera’s humor is the existence of inquiry, is the possibility of release, on the ontology and psychoanalysis has a profound spiritual kernel, Kundera’s humor and practice has obvious mirror relationship, although faced with a lot of misreading, ethical theory, and other contemporary dilemma, have significant modernity, for the contemporary novel creation and literature research has far-reaching significance.