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Milan Kundera

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Milan Kundera


Born
in Brno, Czechia, Czech Republic
April 01, 1929

Died
July 11, 2023

Genre
Literature & Fiction

Influences
Robert Musil, Witold Gombrowicz, Sterne, Diderot, François Rabelais, H ...more


Milan Kundera (1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a Czech and French novelist. He went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981. His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.

Kundera wrote in Czech and French. He revises the French translations of all his books; people therefore consider these original works as not translations. He is best known for his novels, including The Joke (1967), The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979), and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), all of which exhibit his extreme though often comical skepticism.
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Average rating: 4.02 · 840,033 ratings · 53,720 reviews · 211 distinct works • Similar authors
The Unbearable Lightness of...
4.11 avg rating — 510,387 ratings — published 1984 — 476 editions
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The Book of Laughter and Fo...
3.96 avg rating — 52,085 ratings — published 1979 — 208 editions
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Immortality
4.14 avg rating — 41,040 ratings — published 1990 — 219 editions
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The Joke
4.03 avg rating — 38,370 ratings — published 1967 — 246 editions
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Laughable Loves
3.82 avg rating — 36,424 ratings — published 1970 — 212 editions
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Identity
3.69 avg rating — 31,180 ratings — published 1997 — 169 editions
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Ignorance
3.81 avg rating — 26,235 ratings — published 2000 — 163 editions
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Life is Elsewhere
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3.96 avg rating — 20,591 ratings — published 1973 — 156 editions
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Slowness
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Farewell Waltz
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“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.”
― Milan Kundera
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“You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”
― Milan Kundera
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“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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