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Milan Kundera

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born
April 01, 1929 in Brno, Czech Republic

gender
male

genre
Literature & Fiction


About this author

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.

Arabic Profile: ميلان كوندير


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Average rating: 3.93 · 133,304 ratings · 6,668 reviews · 57 distinct works
The Unbearable Lightness of...
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 77,530 ratings — published 1984 — 146 editions
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The Book of Laughter and Fo...
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 12,361 ratings — published 1978 — 54 editions
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Immortality
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 8,268 ratings — published 1990 — 56 editions
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The Joke
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 6,645 ratings — published 1965 — 78 editions
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Identity
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3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 5,172 ratings — published 1997 — 46 editions
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Laughable Loves
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 5,224 ratings — published 1969 — 64 editions
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Ignorance
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 4,197 ratings — published 2000 — 55 editions
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Slowness
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 3,995 ratings — published 1995 — 33 editions
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Life Is Elsewhere
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3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 3,574 ratings — published 1973 — 42 editions
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Farewell Waltz
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 2,677 ratings — published 1971 — 56 editions
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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.”
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“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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