 | Frans Alphons Maria Alting Von Geusau - 1992 - Страниц: 288
...its national consciousness it uses the method of organized forgetting... The basic event of this book is the story of totalitarianism, which deprives people...memory and thus retools them into a nation of children. All totalitarianisms do this. And perhaps our entire technical age does this, with its cult of the... | |
 | Susan Huddleston Edgerton - 1996 - Страниц: 230
...desire to reach "an agreement with being as such" (Unbearable Lightness of Being, 1984, 248, 249). It "deprives people of memory and thus retools them into a nation of children" (The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, 1 98 1 , 235). Robert Boyers writes in a letter to Kundera, "Collective... | |
 | Ross Posnock, Associate Professor of English Ross Posnock - 2006 - Страниц: 334
...way individualistically to inner sorrows" (The Joke 31). Totalitarianism, Kundera remarked to Roth, "deprives people of memory and thus retools them into a nation of children" (S 98). The coerced evacuation of subjectivity creates Soviet style pseudomaturity that Kundera calls... | |
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the basic event" of your novel is "the story of totalitarianism, which deprives people of memory and thus retools them into a nation of children... 