Milan Kundera, known for characters that floated between daily life and the world of ideas, died aged 94

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From the 1990s, Kundera, who was born in the Czech Republic, wrote exclusively in French and saw himself as a French writer

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The Unbearable Lightness Of Being (1984) Undoubtedly his most famous work, translated in over a dozen languages

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The Joke (1967) Hi first novel and a love story inspired by his first expulsion from the Communist Party in the 1950s

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The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting (1979) A novel on the nature of joy, memory and forgetfulness in life

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Slowness (1995) A novel that explores the nature of being and free will

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The Art Of The Novel (1986) Not strictly a book, but part of an excellent trilogy of book-length essays on the European novel

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The Festival of Insignificance (2013) A short novel about the ordinariness of life

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Milan Kundera, known for characters that floated between daily life and the world of ideas, died aged 94

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By Team Lounge
Published Jul 13, 2023

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From the 1990s, Kundera, who was born in the Czech Republic, wrote exclusively in French and saw himself as a French writer

Photo Credit: AFP

The Unbearable Lightness Of Being (1984) Undoubtedly his most famous work, translated in over a dozen languages

The Joke (1967) Hi first novel and a love story inspired by his first expulsion from the Communist Party in the 1950s

The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting (1979) A novel on the nature of joy, memory and forgetfulness in life

Slowness (1995) A novel that explores the nature of being and free will

The Art Of The Novel (1986) Not strictly a book, but part of an excellent trilogy of book-length essays on the European novel

The Festival of Insignificance (2013) A short novel about the ordinariness of life

Milan Kundera, known for characters that floated between daily life and the world of ideas, died aged 94

Photo Credit: Reuters

web stories

By Team Lounge Published Jul 13, 2023

Mint Lounge

From the 1990s, Kundera, who was born in the Czech Republic, wrote exclusively in French and saw himself as a French writer

Photo Credit: AFP

The Unbearable Lightness Of Being (1984) Undoubtedly his most famous work, translated in over a dozen languages

The Joke (1967) Hi first novel and a love story inspired by his first expulsion from the Communist Party in the 1950s

The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting (1979) A novel on the nature of joy, memory and forgetfulness in life

Slowness (1995) A novel that explores the nature of being and free will

The Art Of The Novel (1986) Not strictly a book, but part of an excellent trilogy of book-length essays on the European novel

The Festival of Insignificance (2013) A short novel about the ordinariness of life

By Team Lounge
Published Jul 13, 2023