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The focus of Kundera's novels is their wrestle with questions of knowledge, the complexity of being and a constant uncertainty.

Czech-born novelist Milan Kundera, who satirized totalitarian regimes and mixed dark irony with philosophical musings to explore the human condition, has died, a library he worked with said on Wednesday. He was 94.

He finally found freedom in art, and in exile.

'If you are a small nation, though, you do not make history. You are always the object of history.' An Interview with Milan Kundera by Ian McEwan.

‘May in Paris was an explosion of revolutionary lyricism. The Prague Spring was the explosion of post-revolutionary scepticism.’ Milan Kundera in Granta 13.

A major paradox of our time came to light during the Nato summit that ended in Vilnius, Lithuania earlier this week: a proxy war does not constitute a real war.

In clashing bitterly over how an individual should best confront government evil, the two most famous Czech anti-communists unwittingly demonstrated how totalitarianism mangles human lives.

There is a memorable 15-page section of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, the most famous work by the celebrated Czech-French novelist Milan Kundera, who…

‘But since Europe itself is in the process of losing its own cultural identity, it perceives in Central Europe nothing but a political regime.’