Milan Kundera (UK: /ˈkʊndərə, ˈkʌn-/ KU(U)N-dər-ə; Czech: [ˈmɪlan ˈkundɛra] ; 1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a Czech and French novelist. Kundera went...

Lightness of Being (Czech: Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí) is a 1984 novel by Milan Kundera, about two women, two men, a dog, and their lives in the 1968 Prague...

Kundera is a Czech surname. Notable people with the surname include: Ludvík Kundera (1920–2010), Czech writer and translator, cousin of Milan Kundera...

considered as a noun. Milan Kundera's 1984 novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being is an exploration of the concept of Lightness. Kundera uses Friedrich Nietzsche's...

romantic drama film, an adaptation of the 1984 novel of the same name by Milan Kundera. It was directed by Philip Kaufman, who co-wrote the screenplay with...

little pool in pulsing tide an aura round your knees". Czech-born writer Milan Kundera in his 2015 book The Festival of Insignificance conveys about the eroticism...

the depicted subject. The concept of kitsch is a central motif in Milan Kundera's 1984 novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Towards the end of the...

traces de Franz Kafka dans l’œuvre de Milan Kundera // In the footsteps of Franz Kafka in the work of Milan Kundera" Peter Morgan Ismail Kadare: The Writer...

The Joke (Czech: Žert) is Milan Kundera's first novel, originally published in 1967. It describes how a student's private joke derails his life, and the...

Laughter and Forgetting (Czech: Kniha smíchu a zapomnění) is a novel by Milan Kundera, published in France in 1979. It is composed of seven separate narratives...

union sympathized with radical socialists, especially Ludvík Vaculík, Milan Kundera, Jan Procházka, Antonín Jaroslav Liehm, Pavel Kohout and Ivan Klíma...

Ludvík Kundera (17 August 1891 – 12 May 1971) was a Czechoslovak musicologist, pianist and academic administrator. Kundera was born in Brno, Královo Pole...

Immortality (Czech: Nesmrtelnost) is a novel in seven parts, written by Milan Kundera in 1988 in Czech. It was first published in 1990 in French, and then...

(French: L'Identité) is a novel by Franco-Czech writer Milan Kundera, published in 1998. Kundera moved to France in 1975. Identity is set primarily in...

(France) – including Kundera, Borges, Kadare, and Styron List of recipients of the Prix Médicis (France) – including Eco, Perec, and Kundera List of recipients...

Ignorance (French: L'ignorance) is a novel by Milan Kundera. It was written in 1999 in French and published in 2000. It was translated into English in...

Slovenia Milan Kundera, Czech writer Milan Luthria, Indian film director (name unrelated to Slavic) Milan Lucic, Canadian hockey player Milan Máčala, Czech...

writer Milan Kundera. In a letter addressed to the chairman of the jury, Kundera, who could not attend the ceremony, accepted the award. Kundera donated...

Jireš's adaptation of Milan Kundera's novel The Joke (1969). At the Fourth Congress of the Czechoslovak Writers Union in 1967, Milan Kundera described this wave...

Comedy Theatre with Adam Faith, Jaques in Jaques and His Master by Milan Kundera, and Sam in Crossing Delancey by Susan Sandler. His more recent years...

French symbolist poets). In The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979), Milan Kundera explains proliferation of non-professional writing as follows: Graphomania...

school in Brno (now Gymnázium třída Kapitána Jaroše, later attended by Milan Kundera). He failed the first year, and later attended a technical secondary...

(French: L'Art du roman) is a 1986 essay about European literature by Milan Kundera, in which the author describes his opinions about the novel and his...

Slowness (French: La Lenteur) is a novel by Czech writer Milan Kundera published in 1995 in France, where the author had been living since the 1970s....

Philip Larkin, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Milan Kundera and Kazuo Ishiguro. Founded in 1929, in 2006 the company was named the...

Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera Man and Boy by Tony Parsons The Truth by Terry Pratchett The War of...

are Primo Levi, Aharon Appelfeld, Ivan Klima, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Milan Kundera, and Edna O'Brien. In addition, the book contains a discussion with...

compared to that of Nikolai Gogol, George Orwell, Gabriel García Márquez, Milan Kundera, and Balzac. His works have been published in 45 languages. The New...

is supposed to do". Similarly, in his preface to his novel The Joke, Milan Kundera wrote, "not until the work of Flaubert did prose lose the stigma of...

The Review of Contemporary Fiction published an edition dedicated to Milan Kundera/Zulfikar Ghose. Its editors noted that "Zulfikar Ghose has both ranked...