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Milan Kundera


Czechoslovakia (1929 - 2023)

Milan Kundera was a Czech and French writer of Czech origin who 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.

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.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   The Joke (1967)
   Life Is Elsewhere (1970)
   Farewell Waltz (1971)
   The Farewell Party (1976)
   The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1980)
   The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984)
   Immortality (1988)
   Slowness (1995)
   Identity (1996)
   Masterpieces of Fiction (1997)
   Ignorance (2000)
   The Festival of Insignificance (2015)
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Collections
   Laughable Loves (1969)
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Novellas and Short Stories
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Milan Kundera recommends
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The Escape (2009)
Adam Thirlwell
"A novel where the humour is melancholic, the melancholy mischievous and the talent startling."
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Texaco (1992)
Patrick Chamoiseau
"Chamoiseau is a writer who has the sophistication of the modern novelist, and it is from that position (as an heir of Joyce and Kafka) that he holds out his hand to the oral prehistory of literature."
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The Engineer of Human Souls (1984)
Josef ŠkvoreckÝ
"Magnificent! A magnum opus!"

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