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Kundera, Milan (1929– )

Czech-born French writer. Known for his political and erotic satires, he achieved widespread acclaim with his first novel, Zert/The Joke (1967), a satire on Stalinism in Czechoslovakia. Other successful novels include Kniha smí chu a zapomnení/The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979) and Nes nesitelná lehkost byti/The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984; filmed 1988).

After all of his works were banned in Czechoslovakia, Kundera moved to France in 1975, obtaining French citizenship in 1981. He has also written poetry, plays, short stories, and essays; the latter include The Art of the Novel (1988), Testaments Betrayed (1990), and The Curtain (2005), collections examining the history of the European novel.
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A brilliant article in the June issue of the American weekly journal The Nation by Jana Prikryl recounted the reporting process that lead to a story in the Czech political weekly Respekt, which claimed Milan Kundera informed on another man, Miroslav Dvoracek, during the communist era.
Waking the public sphere: Czech politics and media are caught in a ... by Cunningham, Benjamin / The New Presence: The Prague Journal of Central European Affairs
Czech-born writer Milan Kundera turned his back on his homeland once again when he failed to show up at a major conference on his work this weekend in his southern home city of Brno.
Novelist Kundera dodges Czech conference by AFP / AFP Global Edition
Byline: RON BEADLE THE Czech dissident Milan Kundera once wrote that "the struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting".
Three reasons why we must not forget by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
 
 
 
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