Identităţi în oglinda miturilor politice în spaţiul european totalitar

Abstract

Novel about the way literature glides in reality, in which the demiurge-narrator gradually deciphers his action-related intentions, „The book of laughter and of forgiveness” is concurrently an essay about the
world under-handed by an unfair history. The book brings to light in fact forms of survival in a totalitarian system, the background of the events being the Soviet domination from 1986, in Prague. Beyond the fable of power which despises the personal myth, Milan Kundera suggests a gallery of
characters which prove that the existence is a type of palimpsest story, in which destinies which choose between the Apollonian attitude (“laughter”) and the Dionysiac one (“forgiveness”) are consumed. Modern prose, through the exploration of sexuality, the book divulges multiple keys of lecture through the recursion to the mythical dimension of the existence, either through the myth of Logos, or the myth of Eros, or the one of the devouring time. The femininity avatars are suggested through characters
which range between lyricism and heroism, between past and present, between alienation from self or from the world. The parable of dictatorship proves indirectly that the totalitarian space is the second degree trap for the feminine characters condemned to consume their own history through reflexivity.