Forget about Love: Memory and the End of the World in Literature and Film

Forget about Love: Memory and the End of the World in Literature and Film

By :"Myung-Ok An"
Published on 2007 by ProQuest

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In my thesis I investigate how four works (two novels and two films) explore issues of memory and forgetting. The first chapter examines Michel Gondry's film, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004); the second chapter examines Haruki Murakami's novel, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985); and the third chapter compares Milan Kundera's novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) to the film adaptation (1988) by Philip Kaufman. My central contention is that each of these works, in its own fashion, argues that a certain kind of memory is the foundation of human identity, and that the consequences of intentionally or unintentionally forgetting our private history---including pain and loss---is to lose sight of who we are. I will spend some time considering the form of each of these works, the visual and textual structures of which guide us in different ways through an experience that involves the reader/viewer's own memory. In my conclusion, I attempt to reveal how all four works, in the very act of dismantling our naive convictions about identity and perception, ultimately build to a strangely optimistic vision of the possibilities of the human imagination.

Lenght : 87

Language : en

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