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Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera was an author of poetry, essays, and fiction, including “The Joke” and “The Unbearable Lightness of Being.”

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3 picks · 1979–1984

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
fiction ·

Fiction by Milan Kundera, from 1984: “He remained annoyed with himself until he realized that not knowing what he wanted was actually quite natural.”

The Angels
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Writer interweaves the story of what happened to him in Prague with the story of Michelle and Gabrielle, two American girls studying Ionesco's …

The Cap of Clementis
fiction ·

In 1948 a Communist govt. was established in Czechoslovakia. Now it is 1971 and Mirek, a scientist, at first embraced Communism and then criticized it. …