Kundera, Milan
Kundera, Milan ( 1929 – ),Czech novelist, born in Brno, and educated in Prague, where he later taught at the Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studies. He lost his post after the Russian invasion in 1968 , and in 1975 settled in Paris. His first novel, Zert, was published in 1967 (English trans., The Joke, 1969 ). His other novels (which have not been published in his own country) include The Farewell Party ( 1976 , English trans. 1977 ) and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (French, 1979 ; English, 1980 ), a semi-fictional, semi-autobiographical evocation of the cultural, political, and sexual life of post-war Europe, seen partly through Kundera's own eyes, partly through those of several of the ‘two or three new fictional characters baptized on earth every second’. Other novels include Life is Elsewhere (French, 1973 ; English, 1986 ), in which the central...
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