Comparing Kundera and Khaled

Comparing and Contrasting Works by Kundera and Khaled Hosseini The unbearable lightness of being was make in Paris in 1984 by Czech author Milan Kundera. The fabrication is a mix of genre-defying mix of historical fiction, love stories, philosophy, and experimentation with narrative technique. Set mostly in Prague in the belated 1960s, the novel focuses on the love lives of four Czech intellectuals as they struggle with descents, sex, politics, and the military occupation of their body politic.The narrator frequently interrupts the story to analyze his birth characters and talk over the fictional plotline in the context of the novels central philosophy the dichotomy between lightness and weight. On the contrary of The kite Runner, the book was published in New York in 2003 by Afghanistan author Khaled Hosseini. The novel is a work of post- modern literature telling the story of how the author grew up and the relationship he had with one of his servant boys. However the similar ity here is the Kite Runner is besides written about a time of war for its country while telling the story of the two boys.The author Kundera is unique narrative by presenting himself in the third person, suggesting that he is a character in the story. only when he soon confesses to be the author, not the spectator of the fictional tales. He actually proceeds to comment on the characters his own fictional creations and analyze his own novel for us. What he trying to do which we cannot do in sincere life is disrupts the linearity of time by telling a non-chronological narrative. He achieves this by repeating the same scenes a second or third time. The novel explores the human struggle to give our lives weight despite its necessary and unbearable lightness.The novel itself is the narrators attempt at doing just that for himself. Contrary to Khaled is writing is Classical and he speaks as the author telling a story. He in like manner allows the character themselves to define who th ey be. He does not disrupt the time of telling a chronological narrative. He allows the characters to feel the actually weight of their lives like authoritative life. There is a quote in Kundera book novelistic to you, and I am willing to agree, but only on condition that you refrain from reading such notions as fictive, fabricated, and untrue to life into the word novelistic. Because human lives are composed in precisely such a fashion. (Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness Of Being) both authors are similar in that even though Kundera uses fictional characters and Khaled using real characters. Kundera is saying it is his way of using fictional novel and fictional characters to explore real ideas. Just because my characters are fake, he seems to be saying, doesnt mean that they arent a completely accurate reflection of real life. His novel may be intricately structure and full of artistry but so is life. The novels are different when it comes to the plot.Khaled, follows a typical plotline. Khaled uses his characters to serves as the climax as a hearty in the story. The events are placed in chronological order. Kundera, on the other hand no typical plotline, the novel features several different, interwoven, plotlines. If you identify a climactic situation for one character in one plotline, it doesnt necessarily serve as a climax for the plot as a whole. The suit the same events are narrated more than once from different characters points of view. You cant break this story into purely plot-driven stages.The bowler hat was a motif in the musical composition that was Sabinas life. It return again and again, each time with a different meaning, and all the meanings flowed through the hat like water. You cant step twice into the same river (Kundera, Milan) Sabina was touched by the sight of the bowler hat in a Zurich hotel and make love almost in tears was that its black presence was not merely a reminder of their love games but also a memento of Sabinas father and of her grandfather, who lived in a century without airplanes and cars.The bowler hat carries weight primarily because it has recurred. This is exactly why motifs give meaning to an individuals life because they recur over and over again. This is how we are able to give our lives meaning despite the fact that our life occurs only once. The kite was a motif in emirs life. It returns mollify after season and each time with different meaning. All the meanings flowed like the quote mention above. Amirs longed for the kite runner contest because it was a chance for him to bond and make his father proud of him. The kite recurs over and over every year.This kite running gave him the chance to make his father at last proud of him when he won the contest that last year before war and things change between him and Hassan. Many years later the kite comes covering fire to help him to reach his nephew. This like Sabina gave his life meaning despite the fact he lives only once. Both books show betrayal from one character to the other. In the Kite Runner Amir betrays Hassan on more than one occasion we see it when he was raped by Assef and the other boys. We see it when he places the cash and some gifts under his pillow and tries to convince his father that he stole the items.Tomas betrays Tereza by making all his sexual life to so many women, he makes he and Terezas private life public. He violates her privacy. Tereza reads Tomass letters. Sabina betrays Tomas when she takes his sock and hides it so he will go home with one sock short. This made Tomas realize Sabina resents his love for Tereza as much as Tereza resents his lust for Sabina. In the book by Khaled there is a quote For you a thousand clock over (Hosseini) Hassan used this quote to show his devotion to Amir and that there was nothing he would not do for his friend and master, yet unknowingly to him also his brother.His thousand times over was shown when he went after the kite for Amir and it cost him b eing raped and shamed. At the end of the story you have Amir using the same quote as he and Hassans son Sohrab are flying the kite and he noticed a slight nod and smile come across his face. He knew there was no great big change but like spring when it comes it melts the snow one cow chip at a time he thought he might have just witnessed the first flake melting.Just like Hassan Tereza would show Tomas For you a thousand times over (Kundera) her devotion and love for him. Even though he cheated on her many times over she stayed with him. She believed he was her soul mate that was why she went to Prague to offer up her life to Tomas. Tomas himself was faithful to Tereza in that he would not let anyone possess a special area which he might look for poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful.Since meeting Tereza he did not allow a woman to leave the slightest impression on that part of his brain. Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runn er. Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner. New York Penguin Group, 2003. 371. Novel. Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness Of Being. Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness Of Being. New York harperCollins, 1984. 88. Novel. Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness Of Being. Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness Of Being. New York Harper & Row, 1984. 59. Novel.