Milan Kundera
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born
April 01, 1929
place of birth
Brno, Czech Republic
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.
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera avg rating 4.01 — 5,757 ratings — published 1980 39 editions |
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Immortality by Milan Kundera avg rating 3.98 — 3,530 ratings — published 1999 26 editions |
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The Joke by Milan Kundera avg rating 3.83 — 2,557 ratings — published 1382 45 editions |
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Identity: A Novel by Milan Kundera avg rating 3.57 — 2,296 ratings — published 1998 31 editions |
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Laughable Loves by Milan Kundera avg rating 3.72 — 1,998 ratings — published 1969 47 editions |
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Slowness: A Novel by Milan Kundera avg rating 3.56 — 1,836 ratings — published 1997 21 editions |
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Ignorance: A Novel by Milan Kundera avg rating 3.62 — 1,670 ratings — published 1384 36 editions |
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Life Is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera avg rating 3.82 — 1,533 ratings — published 1973 29 editions |
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Farewell Waltz by Milan Kundera avg rating 3.84 — 817 ratings — published 1973 46 editions |
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The Art of the Novel by Milan Kundera avg rating 3.79 — 681 ratings — published 1368 25 editions |
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"Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful."
— Milan Kundera
— 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
— Milan Kundera
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"Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves."
— Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)
— Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)
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