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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.
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Peter Kussi (27 April 1925 – 2012) was a Czech scholar and translator. [1]Born in Prague in 1925 he emigrated to the United States with his parents as a teenager in 1939. and later taught Czech language and Czech literature at Columbia University from 1979 to 2001.
The Curtain is a seven-part essay by Milan Kundera, along with The Art of the Novel and Testaments Betrayed composing a type of trilogy of book-length essays on the novel. [1] [2] [3] The Curtain was originally published as Le Rideau, in French in April 2005 by Gallimard. It was published in English on 30 January 2007 by HarperCollins ...
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Ignorance (French: L'ignorance) is a novel by Milan Kundera. It was written in 1999 in French and published in 2000. It was written in 1999 in French and published in 2000. It was translated into English in 2002 [ 1 ] by Linda Asher, for which she was awarded the Scott Moncrieff Prize the following year.
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 ...
Life Is Elsewhere (Czech: Život je jinde) is a Czech-language novel by Milan Kundera finished in 1969. It was first published in French in 1973 (La vie est ailleurs).Set in Czechoslovakia before, during, and after the Second World War, it tells the story of a young poet Jaromil and his mother who cling to each other as Jaromil tries to find artistic fame and advance the revolution at the ...