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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 His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.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: 4.01 · 866,191 ratings · 56,833 reviews · 176 distinct works • Similar authors
The Unbearable Lightness of...
4.11 avg rating — 526,617 ratings — published 1984 — 35 editions
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The Book of Laughter and Fo...
3.95 avg rating — 53,185 ratings — published 1979 — 25 editions
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Immortality
4.14 avg rating — 42,056 ratings — published 1990
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The Joke
4.03 avg rating — 39,470 ratings — published 1967
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Laughable Loves
3.81 avg rating — 37,789 ratings — published 1963 — 12 editions
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Identity
3.69 avg rating — 32,246 ratings — published 1997 — 179 editions
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Ignorance
3.81 avg rating — 27,065 ratings — published 2000 — 167 editions
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Life is Elsewhere
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3.96 avg rating — 20,899 ratings — published 1973 — 141 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.”
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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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