Milan Kundera

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April 01, 1929 in Brno, Czech Republic

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Literature & Fiction

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Milan Kundera is a Czech and French writer of Czech origin who has lived in exile in France since 1975, where he became a naturalized citizen in 1981. He is best known as the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, and The Joke.

Kundera has written in both Czech and French. He revises the French translations of all his books; these therefore are not considered translations but original works.

Due to censorship by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia, his books were banned from his native country, and that remained the case until the downfall of this government in the Velvet Revolution in 1989.

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Average rating: 3.92 · 116,071 ratings · 6,282 reviews · 56 distinct works

	The Unbearable Lightness of Being 3.98 avg rating — 66,274 ratings — published 1984 — 138 editions	My rating:
	The Book of Laughter and Forgetting 3.97 avg rating — 11,176 ratings — published 1979 — 51 editions	My rating:
	Immortality 4.00 avg rating — 7,384 ratings — published 1990 — 52 editions	My rating:
	The Joke 3.87 avg rating — 5,841 ratings — published 1990 — 70 editions	My rating:
	Identity by Milan Kundera, Linda Asher (Translator) 3.59 avg rating — 4,641 ratings — published 1998 — 42 editions	My rating:
	Laughable Loves 3.76 avg rating — 4,619 ratings — published 1963 — 62 editions	My rating:
	Ignorance 3.66 avg rating — 3,727 ratings — published 2000 — 49 editions	My rating:
	Slowness 3.58 avg rating — 3,591 ratings — published 1995 — 31 editions	My rating:
	Life Is Elsewhere 3.88 avg rating — 3,161 ratings — published 1973 — 40 editions	My rating:
	Farewell Waltz 3.78 avg rating — 2,382 ratings — published 1971 — 54 editions	My rating:

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“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.”
― Milan Kundera

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“You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”
― Milan Kundera

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“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

tags: heart , mind

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