The Joke, (1967)
Life Is Elsewhere, (1973)
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, (1979)
AND The Unbearable Lightness of Being, to name a few of his novels. These novels were written originally in Czech. His more recent writing is in French, the country he adopted in 1975, and includes the nonfiction titles;
The Art of the Novel, (1986)
Testaments Betrayed(1993)
The Curtain, (2005)
Encounter, (2009)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), his most famous work is but one of the reasons he is acclaimed as a great writer. Herein we find this description of one of the intellectuals, whose lives in Prague during the 1960s and 1970s are the subject of this book:
She would dream three series of dreams in succession: the first was of cats going berserk and referred to the sufferings she had gone through in her lifetime....
Milan Kundera wrote in the same book:
Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, (1979)
AND The Unbearable Lightness of Being, to name a few of his novels. These novels were written originally in Czech. His more recent writing is in French, the country he adopted in 1975, and includes the nonfiction titles;
The Art of the Novel, (1986)
Testaments Betrayed(1993)
The Curtain, (2005)
Encounter, (2009)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), his most famous work is but one of the reasons he is acclaimed as a great writer. Herein we find this description of one of the intellectuals, whose lives in Prague during the 1960s and 1970s are the subject of this book:
She would dream three series of dreams in succession: the first was of cats going berserk and referred to the sufferings she had gone through in her lifetime....
Milan Kundera wrote in the same book:
Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
Kundera avoids publicity and often travels incognito. He does not allow his novels to be made into movies.
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