![]() They rarely interrogate their subjects, and they frequently smooth over the historical aspects to modify them into products that fit seamlessly into our own time. Worst of all, most of the do-overs, especially big studio films, treat the “past” of those things they are repeating as merely quaint artefacts of nostalgia. ![]() Original title: Milan Kundera: From The Joke to. ![]() They only draw on a relatively small cultural pool (the two aforementioned writers, a handful of others, and movies or TV series from the eighties and nineties). Milan Kundera: From The Joke to Insignificance is a Documentary directed by Milos Smdmajer. The “history” these remakes draw on comes only from the last hundred years (in the case of television and cinematic rehashes) to three hundred at most (for adaptations of Dickens or Austen). ![]() Surely this, a well-meaning interlocutor might object, shows a desire, however non-committal, to engage with the past. ![]() The second attempted refutation has the virtue of appealing to a complaint I have voiced myself, right here in Art Of Conversation – that there is an increasing number of reboots and remakes of material from our cultural history. That particular narrative, however, was not taken from Yale or Amherst, but from the pages of The Joke, a Czech novel published in 1967 by the writer Milan Kundera. ![]()
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