Tribute: On Kundera: Past, Present, and Future by Malavika P Pillai
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Malavika P Pillai pays tribute to award-winning Czech-French novelist Milan Kundera who passed away last week.
Milan Kundera
(1st April 1929- 11th July 2023)
“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”
My Master’s thesis began with this quote from Milan Kundera’s The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. As a Memory studies scholar, Kundera’s examination of memory enriched my perspectives, inspiring me to delve deeper into the complexities of memory’s role in shaping individual and collective identities in the face of socio-political conflicts. He shuffled off his mortal coil, leaving behind a long train of intriguing literary legacy of explorations into different shades of manhood.
