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The purpose of the present research is to display Milan Kundera's literary techniques in showing ... more The purpose of the present research is to display Milan Kundera's literary techniques in showing the lethal power of silence. Identity is not to be restrained to psychology as it is a subject of study in sociology, too; therefore, the present paper tries to explore the sociological aspects of identity, embedded in Kundera's novel of the same title, Identity. Silence, as well as dialogue, can affect someone's identity; it may have different consequences, including some positive and some negative ones. The positive consequences of silence which are considered in this novel are taking shelter to silence, avoiding hysterical talkativeness, and making a dialogical self inside oneself. However; despite the positive, but sometimes temporary consequences of silence, there are negative and permanent consequences which include misunderstanding, unfairly judging the other, losing love, monologism, losing memory and consciousness, and all these together negate someone's identity and bring about abnormality and mental disorder. On a larger scale, the paper reveals that power in silence may bolster authority and may lead to someone's negation of identity under authority; hence, the consequences of silence are prone to be more destructive than constructive.

The purpose of the present research is to display Milan Kundera's literary techniques in showing ... more The purpose of the present research is to display Milan Kundera's literary techniques in showing the capacity of silence in transforming its conventional form, so that it would be hidden under different masks, and not to be recognized as silence, regarding Mikail Bakhtin's dialogics. The main focus of this paper is to display the different forms of silence in Kundera's novel Identity. Since silence is not limited to the moments of muteness, it would be discussed that according to Bakhtin's Dialogics, hysterical repeating, overpowering, talkativeness, and writing anonymous letters, may be included as transformed forms of silence. Also it would be discussed that dialogue, in the Bakhtinian sense of the word, may be occurred during someone's interior monologues. On a larger scale, it reveals that because of different mechanisms at work, and because of the complexities which can be entered into the novel, not only dialogue and silence, but also the reality trespasses the presupposed mental frameworks.

The purpose of the present research is to display Milan Kundera's literary techniques in showing ... more The purpose of the present research is to display Milan Kundera's literary techniques in showing the lethal power of silence. Identity is not to be restrained to psychology as it is a subject of study in sociology, too; therefore, the present paper tries to explore the sociological aspects of identity, embedded in Kundera's novel of the same title, Identity. Silence, as well as dialogue, can affect someone's identity; it may have different consequences, including some positive and some negative ones. The positive consequences of silence which are considered in this novel are taking shelter to silence, avoiding hysterical talkativeness, and making a dialogical self inside oneself. However; despite the positive, but sometimes temporary consequences of silence, there are negative and permanent consequences which include misunderstanding, unfairly judging the other, losing love, monologism, losing memory and consciousness, and all these together negate someone's identity and bring about abnormality and mental disorder. On a larger scale, the paper reveals that power in silence may bolster authority and may lead to someone's negation of identity under authority; hence, the consequences of silence are prone to be more destructive than constructive.

The purpose of the present research is to display Milan Kundera's literary techniques in showing ... more The purpose of the present research is to display Milan Kundera's literary techniques in showing the capacity of silence in transforming its conventional form, so that it would be hidden under different masks, and not to be recognized as silence, regarding Mikail Bakhtin's dialogics. The main focus of this paper is to display the different forms of silence in Kundera's novel Identity. Since silence is not limited to the moments of muteness, it would be discussed that according to Bakhtin's Dialogics, hysterical repeating, overpowering, talkativeness, and writing anonymous letters, may be included as transformed forms of silence. Also it would be discussed that dialogue, in the Bakhtinian sense of the word, may be occurred during someone's interior monologues. On a larger scale, it reveals that because of different mechanisms at work, and because of the complexities which can be entered into the novel, not only dialogue and silence, but also the reality trespasses the presupposed mental frameworks.