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Milan Kundera is a world-renowned French citizen of Czech origin novelist with worldwide influence, and because of his special political status, domestic scholars have been paying close attention to him. Since created the novel Joke in 1967, Kundera has written nine full-length novels: Life is Elsewhere, the Farewell Waltz, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, the Unbearable Lightness of Being, Immortality, Slowness and identity, Ignorance and one short story collection Laughable Loves in the following forty years.To varying degrees, repetition is often seen in Kundera’s novels. Whether the words and images in the same work or the themes and structures in multiple works, structure has emerged with different degrees of repeatability. However, scholars at home and abroad haven’t paid much attention to this phenomenon, instead, they focus more on other aspects of Kundera’s novels, such as the exploration in existentialism ideology, the critique on totalitarianism politics, the theory about polyphonic novel, the music ideology and so on.Actually, through close reading of Kundera’s novels, we will find that repetition occuring in his novels is not the fruit of the author’s unconsciousness, but the result of painstaking efforts. It is not only embodied in Milan Kundera’s preference for repetition in his novels, but also in his emphasis on repetition in his novel.The manifestation of repetition in his novels are words and images in one work and themes and structures among several works, etc, the repetition operation models are interpretation of music, polyphonic narration and mythology prototype, and the value of repetition are to pursue the beauty of prose, to search the life of metaphor and to explore the art of counterpoint.
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