The Fundamentals of Milan Kundera’s Poetics

The study is devoted to the early fundamental starting points of Milan Kundera's work from the 1950s to the 1960s.According to the later authorial stylisation, the novelist is born from the ruins of his lyrical world.This assertion creates an impression of a direct, linear authorial development, in which somewhere at the beginning is Kundera's poetry, which the author later abandons in favour of the novel upon reaching an age of artistic maturity.However, if we follow the actual course of Kundera's poetics, we find that this conception does not correspond with the dynamics of the author's development.This it not only because in the creative phase in which the author wrote poetry, he also wrote his first prose texts,