Engaging young adults at the A2 level: two units to help develop acquisition through authenticity

Abstract

The writing of Milan Kundera, a Czech writer in exile in France until his death in 2023, is marked by movement - this assertion is backed up by his novels, the genres the novelist passed through and his personal history. In this sense, this research aims to understand the transformations in Kunderian form over the course of novels originally written in Czech and French. To achieve this, and in accordance with the novels' setting, we set out to establish four word-themes that cross the Kunderian symbolic universe and are fixed as a transitional point: exile, writing, romance and memory. The methodologies defined for this thesis consist of a current reflection on literature in relation to writing in displacement, an understanding of the trajectory of Milan Kundera's literary writing, a contrast between the use of the Czech and French languages, a consideration of the structure of the novel and an understanding of the representation of memory in his literature. The result is a reflection on how this movement influences and becomes a condition for the realization of the novelist's writing beyond the novel and, above all, within it.