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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 …

All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now, a quarter century after The Joke was first published and several years after the collapse of the Soviet-imposed Czechoslovak regime, it becomes easier to put such implications into perspective …

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 …

הקלות הבלתי נסבלת של הקיום הוא סיפורם של ארבעה אנשים וכלב: טומאש, מנתח שסולק ממשרתו אחרי הפלישה הרוסית לצ'כוסלובקיה, רודף נשים בחיפוש מתמיד אחר ייחודן. טרזה, מגישה במסעדת מלון בעיר שכוחה, שבאה להציע לו את נאמנותה. סבינה, ציירת, שחייה שרשרת בגידות וניסיון אמיץ לשמור על עצמאותה. פראנץ, מרצה באוניברסיטה בז'נבה, החולם …

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 …