| Dissident writer since 1979, French citizen since 1981, Milan Kundera is often seen as a political writer. He has often raised his voice against this qualification although his novels represent the reality of the Czech history.;In this thesis, we would like to explore the place of History in Kundera's novels and the differents angles he uses to represent History---its official writing and its deconstruction et fictional rewriting.;In the first chapter, we shall examine the status of History in the postmodern literature. We shall see how the place and the role of History is questioned within the fiction; and how History is deconstructed and relativised on the example of one historical postmodern novel---Un tombeau pour Boris Davidovitch written by Danilo Kis.;In the second chapter, we shall focus on Milan Kundera's reflexions on the novel and on History.;In the third chapter, the representation of History and its different forms of rewriting in Milan Kundera's novel, La plaisanterie, will be the subject of our analysis.;In the fourth chapter, our attention will be focused on the analysis of the representation of History as variations on different themes in Kundera's book, Le livre du rire et de l'oubli. |
