Milan Kundera

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 …

Yaşam Başka Yerde, Milan Kundera'nın yazdığı bir romandır. Ana karakterin adı Jaromil'dir. Babasının ve annesinin arasındaki sorunların sonucunda annesine fazla bağlı bir çocukluk geçirir. Köpek kafalı insan vücutları çizmeye başlar, bunu farkeden annesi onu tatilde tanıştıkları bir ressamdan ders almaya ikna eder. O …

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 …

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.

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 …

Boylece, nice yilar sonra, kendimi dogdugum kentte buldum. Cocukluk, sonra yumurcaklik, sonra delikanlilik caginda binlerce kez icinden gectigim genis meydanda ayakta durmus, hicbir heyecan duymuyordum; tam tersine, (demir baslikli bir atliya benzeyen) damlarin uzerinden bakan bir can kulesinin egemen oldugu bu …

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 …

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 …

Varolmanın Dayanılmaz Hafifliği, Milan Kundera'nın 1982'de yazdığı kitabı. İlk baskısı 1984 yılında Fransa'da Fransızca olarak yapılan kitap, ilk çıktığı andan itibaren edebiyat dünyasında ses getirdi. Çekçe orijinali ertesi yıl yayımlandı. Türkçe çevirisi ilk kez 1986’da yayımlandı ve Mart 2014’te 41. baskıyı yaptı. …