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Milan Kundera


Born
in Brno, Czechia, Czech Republic
April 01, 1929

Died
July 11, 2023

Genre
Literature & Fiction

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


Milan Kundera (1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a Czech and French novelist. He 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 His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.

Kundera wrote in Czech and French. He revises the French translations of all his books; people therefore consider these original works as not translations. He is best known 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.
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Average rating: 4.01 · 894,016 ratings · 59,878 reviews · 148 distinct works • Similar authors
The Unbearable Lightness of...
4.11 avg rating — 544,147 ratings — published 1984 — 38 editions
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The Book of Laughter and Fo...
3.95 avg rating — 54,331 ratings — published 1979 — 14 editions
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Immortality
4.14 avg rating — 43,111 ratings — published 1990 — 47 editions
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The Joke
4.03 avg rating — 40,625 ratings — published 1967 — 30 editions
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Laughable Loves
3.81 avg rating — 39,115 ratings — published 1963 — 220 editions
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Identity
3.69 avg rating — 33,308 ratings — published 1997 — 21 editions
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Ignorance
3.81 avg rating — 27,935 ratings — published 2000 — 9 editions
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Life is Elsewhere
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3.96 avg rating — 21,686 ratings — published 1973 — 149 editions
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Slowness
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3.60 avg rating — 22,667 ratings — published 1995 — 6 editions
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Farewell Waltz
3.87 avg rating — 20,079 ratings — published 1972 — 28 editions
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“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.”
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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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Zwischen die dicken Bücher Das mangelnde Licht und Solenoid möchte ich ein kürzeres Buch dazwischen schieben und schlage dazu verschiedene Erzählbände vor. Welche Erzählungen wollen wir ab 20. Juni lesen?

 
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