审美现代性视野中的米兰·昆德拉

与卡林内斯库的审美现代性理论不同，米兰·昆德拉提出的“欧洲小说”观念，是以审美现代性对抗“资产阶级的现代性”的源头所在。米兰·昆德拉在小说理论和创作实践中展现出了对资产阶级的启蒙现代性的批判，和对审美现代性立场的坚执中产生的反省，阐述了他独特的“欧洲小说观”与审美现代性起源新说。他站在小说家的立场上，以审美现代性的态度，审视和评判现代生活，深入地考察了现代人生存中的一系列现象：媚俗，舞者，轻与重，快与慢，记忆与遗忘，革命、鸟托邦与抒情姿态，等等，犀利地揭示出其中的现代性悖谬。

Milan Kundera in the Horizon of the Aesthetic Modernity

Separated from Calinescu＇ s theory of aesthetic modernity, Milan Kundera＇ s notion was the source of the confrontation between the aesthetic modernity and the bourgeois modernity. of European novel In Milan＇s novel theories and creations, he criticized the bourgeois modernity of enlightenment, reflected on the aesthetic modernity, and expounded his unique notion of European novel and new theory of the origin of aesthetic modernity. On the basis of the above theory, Milan Kundera thoroughly inspected a series of phenomena in the modern existence： kitsch, dancer, light and heavy, fast and slow, memory and forgetting, revolution, utopia and expressive attitude ,etc. As a result, he sharply revealed the paradox of modernity.