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Milan Kundera


Born
in Brno, Czech Republic
April 01, 1929

Genre
Literature & Fiction

Influences
Robert Musil, Witold Gombrowicz, Sterne, Diderot, François Rabelais, H ...more


People best know Czech-born writer Milan Kundera for his novels, including The Joke (1967), The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979), and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), all of which exhibit his extreme though often comical skepticism.

Since 1975, he lived in exile in France and in 1981 as a naturalized citizen.

Kundera wrote in Czech and French. He revises the French translations of all his books; people therefore consider these original works as not translations.

The Communist government of Czechoslovakia censored and duly banned his books from his native country, the case until the downfall of this government in the velvet revolution of 1989.

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Average rating: 4.02 · 702,483 ratings · 39,975 reviews · 140 distinct works • Similar authors
The Unbearable Lightness of...
4.11 avg rating — 423,924 ratings — published 1984 — 443 editions
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The Book of Laughter and Fo...
3.97 avg rating — 46,191 ratings — published 1979 — 167 editions
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Immortality
4.14 avg rating — 35,831 ratings — published 1990 — 171 editions
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The Joke
4.02 avg rating — 32,457 ratings — published 1967 — 195 editions
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Laughable Loves
3.85 avg rating — 29,403 ratings — published 1970 — 180 editions
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Identity
3.69 avg rating — 25,257 ratings — published 1997 — 131 editions
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Ignorance
3.80 avg rating — 21,805 ratings — published 2000 — 125 editions
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Life is Elsewhere
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3.96 avg rating — 17,857 ratings — published 1973 — 134 editions
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Slowness
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3.63 avg rating — 18,066 ratings — published 1995 — 128 editions
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Farewell Waltz
3.86 avg rating — 15,592 ratings — published 1972 — 157 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.”
― 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
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December 2014 Revisit the Shelf Classic

1843, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, 104 pages
 
  41 votes, 27.5%

 
  19 votes, 12.8%

1898, The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, 192 pages
 
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  17 votes, 11.4%

1952, East of Eden by John Steinbeck, 601 pages
 
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1980, The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, 536 pages
 
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1811, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, 409 pages
 
  5 votes, 3.4%

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