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