Милан Кундера

«Невыносимая лёгкость бытия» — роман Милана Кундеры, написанный в 1982 году и впервые опубликованный в 1984-м во Франции. Действие происходит в 1968 году в Праге. Согласно Кундере, бытие полно невыносимой лёгкости, потому что каждый из нас живёт всего один раз: «Einmal ist Keinmal». Значит, каждая жизнь несёт в себе …

In one of the finer modern ironies of the life-imitates-art sort, the country that Kundera seemed to be writing about when he talked about Czechoslovakia is, thanks to the latest political redefinitions, no longer precisely there. This kind of disappearance and reappearance is, partly, what Kundera explores in The …

Immortality is a novel in seven parts, written by Milan Kundera in 1988 in Czech. First published 1990 in French. English edition 345 p., translation by Peter Kussi. This novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman, seemingly to her swimming instructor. Immortality is the last of a trilogy that includes The Book Of …

«Шутка» — роман чешского писателя Милана Кундеры. Написан на чешском языке, завершен 5 декабря 1965, опубликован в 1967 году. Повествование в романе идёт от лица четырёх персонажей — Людвика, музыканта-фольклориста Ярослава, врача Костки, журналистки …

Milan Kundera is a master of graceful illusion and illuminating surprise. In one of these stories a young man and his girlfriend pretend that she is a stranger he picked up on the road--only to become strangers to each other in reality as their game proceeds. In another a teacher fakes piety in order to seduce a …

Identity is a novel by Franco-Czech writer Milan Kundera, published in 1998. It is possibly his most traditional novel in terms of narrative structure. It's also one of his shortest novels. The phrase "masturbating fetus" appears to have been coined in this novel.

A New York Times Notable Book Irena and Josef meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned twenty years earlier. Will they manage to pick up the thread of their strange love story, interrupted almost as soon as it began and then lost in the tides of history? The truth is that after …

The author initially intended to call this novel The Lyrical Age. The lyrical age, according to Kundera, is youth, and this novel, above all, is an epic of adolescence; an ironic epic that tenderly erodes sacrosanct values: childhood, motherhood, revolution, and even poetry. Jaromil is in fact a poet. His mother made …

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. Disconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows the narrator of Slowness through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated by more than two …

«Вальс на прощание» — роман Милана Кундеры, написанный на чешском языке и опубликованный в 1972 году. Роман повествует о любви, ненависти и отношениях между восемью персонажами, которые встречаются в маленьком курортном городке в Чехословакии в начале …