Milan Kundera

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 …

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 …

Encounter is the latest addition to the acclaimed body of literary criticism from beloved author Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting). Novelist Russell Banks writes, “Not since Henry James, perhaps, has a fiction writer examined the process of writing with such …

...Yine Kundera'nin alisilmis kara mizah anlayisi icinde yazilmis bir roman. Mutlulugu arayan yedi kisinin romani. Kundera'nin, alaycilik ve sefkatli ustaca ayarlayarak yonettigi bu 'vals'in dans adimlarina uyarak, romanin bu yedi kisisi, birbirlerine sariliyor ve uzaklasiyorlar.