The Book of Imitation and Desire: Reading Milan Kundera with Rene Girard

ISBN: 9781628925234 出版年：2013 页码：217 Trevor Cribben Merrill Bloomsbury Publishing

Foreword by Andrew McKenna Author's Preface I. "WOMEN LOOK FOR MEN WHO HAVE HAD BEAUTIFUL WOMEN" II. INTO THE LABYRINTH OF VALUES 1. The Transfiguration of the Object 2. Metamorphoses of Kristyna 3. "An Imitation of Feeling" III. FROM IMITATION TO RIVALRY 1. The Shift from Admiration to Envy 2. Deceit, Desire, and the Plight of the Aging Don Juan 3. Rivalry and the Transfiguration of the Object 4. "The Younger Sister Imitated the Elder" 5. Publish or Perish IV. THE MODEL AS OBSTACLE 1. Strategies of Revelation 2. The Art of Polyphonic Comparison 3. A Little Theory of Resentment 4. Litost in the Underground V. JEALOUSY AND ITS METAPHORS 1. The Game Gone Awry 2. The Metaphors of Jealousy 3. "A Test That Gauged Her Susceptibility To Seduction" VI. THE QUADRILLE OF DESIRE 1. Sex as Theater 2. Acute Rivalry and Homosexual Attraction 3. The Geometry of Sadomasochism VII. AT THE HEART OF THE LABYRINTH 1. "The Thousand-Headed Dragon" 2. "The Cement of their Brotherhood" 3. The Two Temptations 4. "The Absolute Denial of Shit" 5. First Time As Tragedy, Second Time As Farce VIII. REPUDIATING THE MODEL 1. Eduard's Smile 2. From Hatred to Compassion 3. Karenin's Smile 4. The Birth of a Novelist 5. Liberating Exiles IX. TOMAS IN COLONUS, OR THE WISDOM OF THE NOVEL Postscript: A Response to Elif Batuman Appendix: A Brief Overview of Kundera's Life and Works Notes Bibliography Index