Imagology milan kundera biography

There are certain authors I keep coming back to. One of them is Milan Kundera, whom I first read and loved about twenty-five years ago, but whose works, on rereading, seem even more loaded with political and philosophical insight than I realized at the time.

Imagology has gained a historic victory over ideology.

Imagology has gained a historic victory over ideology.

The novelist is neither historian nor prophet: he is an explorer of existence.

Milan Kundera is one of the few Czech writers who have achieved wide international recognition.

This document provides a biography of Milan Kundera, a prominent Czech writer.

The novelist Milan Kundera, born April 1, , in Brno, Moravia (then part of the Czechoslovak Republic) died in Paris on July 11 at the age of

One can open them randomly and start reading, and find something pertinent on nearly every page.
Here’s a quote from Kundera’s 1990 work Immortalitythat I think bears another look. He is talking about the ascendance of imagery (which he refers to as “imagology,” meaning suggestive images and slogans) over ideology, or even over reality:

For example, communists used to believe that in the course of capitalist development the proletariat would gradually grow poorer and poorer, but when it finally became clear that all over Europe workers were driving to work in their own cars, [the communists] felt like shouting that reality was deceiving them.

Reality was stronger than ideology. And it is in this sense that imagology surpass