Historicidade e ironia no romance o Livro do riso e do Esquecimento, de Milan Kundera.

Abstract

This work aims to interpret the novel The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera focusing on the relationship developed by the author between historicity and irony throughout his work. More specifically, we analyze the approach of irony in the midst of narratives whose plots revolve, more or less directly, about historical events such as the Prague Spring, the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and, ultimately, the communism. Also, we studied the essayistic and autobiographical passages that intersect the novelistic narrative, trying to show the way they relate to the entire work from the perspective of irony and focus on elements of historical. To accredit appropriately our study, we used a preparation consisting of the theoretical precepts of various scholars of irony as Kierkegaard, Muecke and Duarte, among others, and also accomplish a background of political and social landscape of the period and historical facts mentioned in the novel, by studying the works of historians and sociologists as Eley, Broué, Goldfeder and Fernandes.