10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KUNDERA»
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: A Novel
Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s.
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel
A tale of two couples--Tomas and Teresa, and Sabina and Gerhart--as they struggle with their identities, complex relationships with each other, and the feelings about the political situation in post-war Czechoslovakia.
In seven independent, but closely related chapters, the author presents his personal conception of the European novel, which he describes as 'an art born of the laughter of God'.
All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications.
Milan Kundera's lightest novel, a divertimento, an opera buffa, Slowness is also the first of this author's fictional works to have been written in French.
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Testaments Betrayed: Essay in Nine Parts, An
Milan Kundera has established himself as one of the great novelists of our time with such books as The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Immortality and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting.
A New York Times Notable Book Irena and Josef meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned twenty years earlier.
There are situations in which we fail for a moment to recognize the person we are with, in which the identity of the other is erased while we simultaneously doubt our own.
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Farewell Waltz: A Novel
Set in a Central European town, the story focuses on the interaction between eight characters: a pretty nurse, her repairman boyfriend, an oddball gynecologist, a rich American, a popular trumpeter and his obsessively jealous wife, and a ...
Encounter is the latest addition to the acclaimed body of literary criticism from beloved author Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting).
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KUNDERA»
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The Festival of Insignificance by Milan Kundera. NONFICTION. 1. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo. 2. Modern Romance ... «San Jose Mercury News, Jul 15»
THE DIFFICULTY OF BEING GOOD: AN ANALYSIS OF … - The Citizen
Ashish Kashyap graduated with a Masters in Computer Science from IIT Madras. He spends his time wishing he could write like Milan Kundera. «Google, Jul 15»
The corners will not meet
One could try a variation on the Czech term litost, the yearning for the homeland so eloquently described by Milan Kundera, or a pun on the ... «Calcutta Telegraph, Jul 15»
Turn The Page: Take the #BrunchBookChallenge - Hindustan Times
BONUS: You should also read The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. I am reading it for the tenth time probably, and I just can't ... «Hindustan Times, Jul 15»
Forgetting Srebrenica - Stabroek News
“The struggle of man against power,” writes Milan Kundera, “is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” Monstrous events like those which ... «Stabroek News, Jul 15»
Festival of Insignificance review: Milan Kundera's twilight meditation …
The Festival of Insignificance. Milan Kundera. Faber & Faber, $24.99. Buy now on Booktopia. Alain, one of the "heroes" of Kundera's latest ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
A Rhapsody in Argentina
It reads like a rehash of Milan Kundera and holds few intellectual surprises. The consolation is that Mr. Ball is a prolific writer with a wonderfully ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
Karlovy Vary Festival President Jiri Bartoska Looks Back on Early …
For example, we performed Kundera's version of Jacques the Fatalist – Jacques and his Master, which was a big political act, because you ... «Variety, Jul 15»
A Series of Unfortunate Questions for Daniel Handler
Wodehouse, Marquez, Hijuelos, Durrell, Kundera, Auster, Firbank, Chandler, Wilde—these writers showed me a path forward, and by late high ... «Boing Boing, Jul 15»
Interview: Joshua Oppenheimer Talks 'The Look Of Silence,' The …
The first two I stole from Milan Kundera -- they're not mine. The first tear you cry because something's sad. The second tear you cry because ... «Indie Wire, Jul 15»
