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Kundera, Milan
Born: 1929 AD
Currently alive, at 79 years of age.
Nationality: Czech
Categories: Novelists, Playwrights, Poets
Currently alive, at 79 years of age.
Nationality: Czech
Categories: Novelists, Playwrights, Poets
1929 - Born on April 1st in Brno, Czechia.
1967 - Married to Vera Hrabankova.
- Wrote the book Zert.
1973 - Won the Prix Médicis étranger for Life Is Elsewhere.
1975-1978 - He taught at the University of Rennes.
1979 - His citizenship petition was revoked.
- Wrote The Book of Laughter and Forgetting.
1981 - He became a naturalized French citizen.
1984-1998 - He wrote The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Immortality, Slowness, Identity and Farewell Waltz.
2000 - Wrote his latest book Ignorance.
1967 - Married to Vera Hrabankova.
- Wrote the book Zert.
1973 - Won the Prix Médicis étranger for Life Is Elsewhere.
1975-1978 - He taught at the University of Rennes.
1979 - His citizenship petition was revoked.
- Wrote The Book of Laughter and Forgetting.
1981 - He became a naturalized French citizen.
1984-1998 - He wrote The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Immortality, Slowness, Identity and Farewell Waltz.
2000 - Wrote his latest book Ignorance.
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- "Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it."
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel by Milan Kundera (Paperback - May 1, 1999) A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover -- these are the two couples whose story is told in...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Identity: A Novel by Milan Kundera (Paperback - May 1, 1999) The reader sits down to dinner with Chantal, who is waiting for her lover, Jean-Marc, in a seaside hotel. While waiting to be served, she overhears two waitresses discuss the unexplained...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
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