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• The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  Kundera, Milan

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  When The Unbearable Lightness of Being was first published in English, it was hailed as "a work of the boldest mastery, originality, and richness" by critic Elizabeth Hardwick and named one of the best books of 1984 by the New York Times Book…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

  Kundera, Milan

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  Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than its…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Art of the Novel

  Kundera, Milan

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  Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Musil. He is especially penetrating on Hermann Broch, and his exploration of the world of Kafka's novels…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Kidnapped West

  the Tragedy of Central Europe

  Kundera, Milan,

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  A short collection of brilliant early essays that offers a fascinating context for Milan Kundera's subsequent career and holds a mirror to much recent European history. It is also remarkably prescient with regard to Russia's current aggression in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Encounter

  Kundera, Milan

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  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,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Curtain

  An Essay in Seven Parts

  Kundera, Milan

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  In this entertaining and always stimulating essay, Kundera cleverly sketches out his personal view of the history and value of the novel in Western civilization. Too often, he suggests, a novel is thought about only within the confines of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ignorance

  Kundera, Milan

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  A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned twenty years earlier when they chose to become exiles. Will they manage to pick up the thread of their strange love story, interrupted almost as soon as it…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Immortality

  Kundera, Milan

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  Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agnes becomes an object of…Read moreRead more of this annotation