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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1979 - His citizenship petition was revoked.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1979 - His citizenship petition was revoked.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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The Joke (Definitive Version) by Milan Kundera (Paperback - Apr 14, 1993) All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now, a quarter century afterThe Jokewas first published and several years... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts by Milan Kundera (Paperback - Jan 1, 2008) In this thought-provoking, endlessly enlightening, and entertaining essay on the art of the novel, renowned author Milan Kundera suggests that "the curtain" represents a ready-made perception of the...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
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The Art of the Novel (Perennial Classics) by Milan Kundera (Paperback - Apr 1, 2003) Every novelist's work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of what the novel is. I have tried to express here the idea of the novel that is inherent in my own novels.--... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Immortality (Perennial Classics) by Milan Kundera (Paperback - Nov 1, 1999) Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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