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The novels he wrote following exile to France will forever satisfy those who like anthracite-black wit woven in with their philosophical fiction

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.

PRAGUE: Czech-born writer Milan Kundera, author of the novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being who lived nearly ...

“My lifetime ambition has been to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form. The combination of a frivolous form and a serious subject immediately unmasks the...

In 1983, the writer told The Paris Review: My lifetime ambition has been to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form. The combination of a frivolous form and a serious subject immediately unmasks the truth about our dramas and their awful insignificance

Milan Kundera, the celebrated Czech author best known for The Unbearable Lightness of Being, has died, aged 94. His work interrogated totalitarianism and explored ideas – leavened with bleak humour.

PARIS: Milan Kundera, the author of ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’ whose dark, provocative novels delved into...

The Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Catherine Colonna, was deeply saddened to hear the news of Milan Kunderas death and extends her (…)

Refusing to talk about himself was not a moral attitude, nor a posture of proud withdrawal, but a novelistic rejection of the despotism of the media

Milan Kundera, the "Unbearable Lightness of Being' author who died Tuesday at 94, didn't just liberate minds from tyranny. He freed the novel too.