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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.
He finally found freedom in art, and in exile.
‘May in Paris was an explosion of revolutionary lyricism. The Prague Spring was the explosion of post-revolutionary scepticism.’ Milan Kundera in Granta 13.
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.
‘But since Europe itself is in the process of losing its own cultural identity, it perceives in Central Europe nothing but a political regime.’