КАТЕГОРИИ ЖИЗНИ, СМЕРТИ, БЕССМЕРТИЯ В РОМАНЕ МИЛАНА КУНДЕРЫ "БЕССМЕРТИЕ"

Abstract

The article analyzes the philosophical categories «life», «death», «immortality»which form the basis of the ideological narrative plan in Milan Kundera’s novel «Immortality», as well as ways of their representation in the text. Using the paradox technique, M. Kundera changes the usual distribution of meanings associated with the concepts of «life» and «death»: life - being, good, death - non-existence, evil. M. Kundera deprives the antinomy of «life-death» of the usual confrontation, demonstrating by the example of his characters that life can contain death, and death can be a return to life. Such an idea of life and death is characteristic of traditional culture and is found in various religious paradigms (Christianity, Buddhism, etc.). In the novel «Immortality» there is a combination of the author’s view of philosophical categories and the approach characteristic of traditional culture, in which the semantic discourses of the concepts of «life», «death» and «immortality» constantly intersect. Traditional ideas about the nature of life and death are combined in the novel with a system ofparadoxes characteristic of the Kundera narrative, the purpose of which is to reveal contradictions within complex existential concepts and phenomena.