The Irish Times view on Milan Kundera: a citizen of the world
The novels he wrote following exile to France will forever satisfy those who like anthracite-black wit woven in with their philosophical fiction
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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