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Humour:the Last Refuge For Human Being-milan Kundera's Revelations About Human's Existence

Posted on:2019-04-14Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:B D WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2405330545454357Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Milan Kundera,the French Czech writer,occupies a vital position in today's literary world for his poetic words and philosophical thinking.On the basis of Kundera's view on literature,aesthetics and being,this paper starting from the understanding of his spirit of humour,combining with the problem of value loss,combed out a clue to understand Kundera's thinking about being and revealed his enlightenment to us.This paper mainly includes the following five chapters:Based on the examination and exploration of the phenomenon about "there is no humour any more",this paper came up with the problem of value loss.Furthermore,this paper analyzed people's existence situations in the two extreme circumstances of value(extremely light and extremely heavy)and revealed the necessity of value for human's existence;At the same time,combined with the inherent consciousness of shameful,this paper pointed out the extreme tendency of human value's development.Moreover,from the analysis of individual's age and era's age,the paper revealed the inevitability of the phenomenon about value loss.Meanwhile,we recognized the truth that everyone of us had involved in the process of value loss and become the accomplice of our own gravediggers.Faced with the current situation where human's value nearly goes into vacuum,the paper pointed out people's nostalgia for the good old days,revealed the fact that people cannot return back to the past due to human's nature of forgetting.So in the face of this inevitable trend,the only thing we can do is to slow it down.Since the world is becoming uglier and uglier for the loss of human's value,how could we continue to survive under such circumstances?With the thinking of all these problems,the last chapter pointed out these vital issues:what was Kundera's spirit of humour like,why we should be humorous and how could we obtain the ability of humour.In this position,the paper emphasized the extreme significance of humour for human's existence.
Keywords/Search Tags:Humour, Value loss, Being
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