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Milan Kundera (UK: / ˈ k ʊ n d ər ə, ˈ k ʌ n-/ KU(U)N-dər-ə; [1] [2] Czech: [ˈmɪlan ˈkundɛra] ⓘ; 1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a Czech and French novelist. Kundera went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981. His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019. [3]
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Czech: Kniha smíchu a zapomnění) is a novel by Milan Kundera, published in France in 1979. It is composed of seven separate narratives united by some common themes. The book considers the nature of forgetting as it occurs in history, politics, and life in general.
Identity (French: L'Identité) is a novel by Franco-Czech writer Milan Kundera, published in 1998. Kundera moved to France in 1975. Identity is set primarily in France and was his second novel to be written in French with his earlier novels all in Czech. The novel revolves around the intimate relationship between Chantal and her marginally ...
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. Appreciation: In a world full of lies, Milan ...
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 ...
Jacques and His Master is a play written in 1971 by Milan Kundera, with the subtitle "An Homage to Diderot in Three Acts". [1] Kundera's work is a variation on Denis Diderot's late 18th-century novel Jacques the Fatalist. The play was first produced in Zagreb, former Yugoslavia, in 1980. It has also been staged in Greece, West Germany ...
Author died in Paris ‘after a prolonged illness’
The Festival of Insignificance (French: La fête de l'insignifiance) is a novel by Milan Kundera.This is his eleventh and final fictional work before his death in 2023. It is about a man named Alain, who has not seen his mother since his childhood; Ramon, an intellectual who has retired; D'Ardelo, a man who has a narcissistic personality; Charles and "Caliban" are two people who operate a ...