Milan Kundera

Neznesiteľná ľahkosť bytia je román francúzsko-českého autora Milana Kunderu z roku 1984. Dej románu sa začína v Prahe v roku 1968. Román zobrazuje život umelcov a intelektuálov v Česko-Slovensku po sovietskej invázii, ktorá zmarila Pražskú jar. Hlavnou postavou diela je Tomáš, lekár, ktorý je po kritike vládnuceho …

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 …

Žert je prvý román Milana Kunderu napísaný roku 1965 a prvýkrát vydaný roku 1967 nakladateľstvom Československý spisovatel. Hlavnou postavou je Ludvík Jahn, v raných päťdesiatych rokoch ako študent horlivý komunista, ktorého kvôli žartovnej pohľadnici, poslanej spolužiačke Markéte na socialistické školenie, vyhodili z …

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 …

Život je jinde je druhý román Milana Kunderu z roku 1969. Je písaný po česky a hovorí o osudoch naivného básnika Jaromila pred a po druhej svetovej vojne. Prvýkrát bol vydaný vo francúzskom preklade v roku 1973, v češtine ho vydalo až exilové nakladateľstvo Sixty-Eight Publishers v Toronte v roku …

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 …

The Farewell Waltz is a Czech-language novel by Milan Kundera published in 1972. A French edition was published in 1976 and an English version entitled The Farewell Party. This novel mostly deals with love, hate and accidents between eight characters who are drawn together in a small spa town in Czechoslovakia in …