2009/03/20

say hi to milan kundera!

im reading his books now days

and i like him alot.

and ppl were like "REALLY? U LIKE MILAN KUNDERA?"

like as if its EW... is it????

i dont get it

i love his style of writing, very analytical and psychological

very reasonable, erotic, interesting, kind of grotesque, kind of stereotyping...

but very very... true

i really like studying human behavior and how certain people's mind work

it is kind of like.. little things when you see how someone behaves

very slight things

where u can tell

"oh he/she has unresolved issues with his mother"

"oh that person , sexual deviant!"

"oh that person probably goes home and revises their conversation
e.g. im going to say this when i introduce myself at dinner today"

"oh that persons wanting me to think in a certain way. "

or even scary things like

"were you fat when you were a child?"

"did you grow up in this kind of environment?"

like milan kundera's books totally talking about things like this for every character in his book

he pretends to like explain the character, but actually its kind of trying to make people understand

how one behaves, due to usually certain kind of history/environment

and also the beauty of analytical thinking.



im beginning to think, maybe, milan is very analytical because

by analysing things,

he feels secure.

but really he knows that things can still be threatening

even when you feel like it is deeply understood through analysing and prediction.

and even this whole book by the writer, who is analytical

is also an analyses of a certain case study?

and the case study is milan kundera.

which also goes back to the everlasting forever repeating human nature

like in the movie Amadeus, mankind always praises for eternity, forever lasting

"fire that never dies"

like in the Greek legends, where people do certain things to leave their names behind


so in music, art, literature, architecture (ESP!), fame, glory, power, idolizing, history is all

going back to the same theme

wanting to be remembered

for eternity

even after death

to be a legend

even after

centuries and centuries have passed.





WHY????????????

so childish/sentimental reason in the end

"i want people to remember me even when im gone"

13 Comments:

Blogger the_kitten said...

the unbearable lightness of being is one of my favorite books of all time. you make me want to re-read it again. i thought it was a so beautiful and light treatment of so heavy and complicated feelings and topics.

March 20, 2009 at 4:43 PM  
Blogger miss a. said...

"the unbearable lightness of being" changed my life when I was reading it in England. it seems like the perfect book to read in brooding, dark weather (especially when the sun goes down at 4PM). omg, i think i fell in love with you when you were doing "model diaries" and you said you were reading tolstoy. you should read "the kindly ones" by jonathan littell if you get a chance. i think you'll like his writing style. :)

March 20, 2009 at 4:58 PM  
Blogger dirtbag said...

DAUL MARRY ME AHHH

March 21, 2009 at 3:28 PM  
Blogger market publique said...

i love kundera. i read The Unbearable Lightness of Being and liked it so much that I read Laughable Loves & The Book of Laughter and Forgetting right after.

I think people have mixed reactions because he is pretty misogynistic. Still I loved his books. Although all three were quite similar, so no need to read them all unless you're totally and utterly into them.

March 22, 2009 at 9:08 AM  
Blogger Charlene said...

i read unbearable lightness halfway and since then, it was left hanging. i feel so bad saying this, but i really like his works tho.
try Fernando Pessoa. brilliant poet/ writer you can probably identify with too. i have two of his books and they are like my bibles.

March 24, 2009 at 9:09 AM  
Blogger Maggie May said...

i can't wait to read him.

March 28, 2009 at 7:21 PM  
Blogger Berlin said...

I remember you.

May 16, 2010 at 12:22 AM  
Blogger carolyn said...

berlin
i do too
how is it that we're both going through daul's entries this week in may? peace.

May 23, 2010 at 5:24 PM  
Blogger ____ said...

you'll always be remembered in our hearts.

June 13, 2011 at 12:09 PM  
Blogger Sabina said...

you are remembered

February 27, 2012 at 3:08 AM  
Blogger Anna B said...

And we still miss you... 울 이쁜 다울언니 너무 보고 싶다

September 1, 2012 at 9:47 PM  
Blogger alfulofjoye said...

<3

November 11, 2012 at 10:23 AM  
Blogger Kristen Cooper said...

We remember you Daul . Wish you didn't leave us so soon . :( but great things escape fast I think also do you know you're a lifepath #9 . I think that's explains a lot . Xo

May 25, 2016 at 9:31 AM  

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