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  2. Milan Kundera - Wikipedia

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    Milan Kundera was born on 1 April 1929 at Purkyňova 6 (6 Purkyně Street) in Královo Pole, a district of Brno, Czechoslovakia (present-day Czech Republic), to a middle-class family. His father, Ludvík Kundera (1891–1971), was an important Czech musicologist and pianist who served as the head of the Janáček Music Academy in Brno from 1948 ...

  3. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Wikipedia

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    Eventually, Kundera's associate – code named R. – is brought in for questioning concerning Kundera's clandestine writing, changing the mood from amusement to concern. Kundera also describes 'circle dancing' wherein the joy and laughter build up to the point that the people's steps take them soaring into the sky with the laughing angels.

  4. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Wikipedia

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    Quoting Kundera from the book: The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are ...

  5. Milan Kundera, renowned but reclusive Czech writer and ... - AOL

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    Milan Kundera, the renowned but reclusive author whose dissident writings transformed him into an exiled satirist of totalitarianism and explorer of identity and the human condition, has died in ...

  6. Milan Kundera, ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’ Novelist ...

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    Milan Kundera, whose 1984 novel “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” was turned into an Oscar-nominated film, has died at the age of 94. Kundera died Tuesday in Paris after a long illness ...

  7. Appreciation: In a world full of lies, Milan Kundera taught ...

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    Milan Kundera, the "Unbearable Lightness of Being' author who died Tuesday at 94, didn't just liberate minds from tyranny. He freed the novel too.

  8. Immortality (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Immortality (Czech: Nesmrtelnost) is a novel in seven parts, written by Milan Kundera in 1988 in Czech. It was first published in 1990 in French, and then translated into English by Peter Kussi and published in the UK in 1991. [1] The story springs from a casual gesture of a woman, seemingly to her swimming instructor.

  9. The Joke (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The Joke (Czech: Žert) is Milan Kundera's first novel, originally published in 1967.It describes how a student's private joke derails his life, and the entwined stories of his lovers and friends grappling with the shifting roles of folk traditions and religion under Communist Czechoslovakia.