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French Ambassador on Milan Kundera: His fiction is philosophy
July 21, 2023 10:45 pm
Kundera’s goal was to lend new credibility to the genre by infusing it with themes revolving around one’s past, memory and amnesia, nostalgia and self-ridicule
A tribute to the genius of writer Milan Kundera (1929-2023) can only only be paid by going over and beyond his written words
July 19, 2023 9:51 pm
In all his novels, the Czech-French author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being questioned the nature of artistic creation and offered fictionalised simplifications of complex philosophical enquiries
Wordly Wise | Clairvoyant, paranoid, mordant: Some words from Milan Kundera’s many obituaries
July 16, 2023 12:35 pm
Milan Kundera was a Czech-French novelist often considered the greatest 20th century writer not to win a Nobel Prize for his work. Best known for his novel, ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’, Kundera passed away earlier this week at the age of 94.
Express View on Milan Kundera: This absurdist drama
July 13, 2023 11:44 pm
Kundera interrogated existential truths with a diaphanous lightness of form and expression
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: The Unbearable Lightness of Milan Kundera (1929-2023)
July 12, 2023 10:33 pm
The voice of both the great and barbaric threat to freedom as well as of the void that freedom creates, Milan Kundera was a political novelist in the deepest sense of the term
Milan Kundera, author of ‘Unbearable Lightness of Being’, dies at 94
July 12, 2023 7:20 pm
Kundera escaped persecution, satirised dictators, and even supported a convicted sex offender, all with the nib of a pen that has finally been laid to rest
Milan Kundera, author of 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being', dies aged 94
July 12, 2023 3:07 pm
Czech-born writer Milan Kundera emigrated to France in 1975 after being ostracised for criticising the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.
A year after having his citizenship restored, Milan Kundera receives Franz Kafka prize
September 23, 2020 11:42 am
Incidentally, The Unbearable Lightness of Being author was removed from Czechoslovakian party in 1950, and in 1975 he fled. His association with Czech Republic has been ambiguous since then
Citizen Kundera
December 07, 2019 6:56 am
Milan Kundera did not need his Czech citizenship restored. It was an act of contrition for an era of exclusion
Citizenship lost and regained: the importance of being Milan Kundera
December 07, 2019 8:37 am
In 1979, Kundera was stripped of his citizenship of undivided Czechoslovakia. He had published a book in France called The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, whose best known line is: “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”.
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