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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 reg
""After Farewell Waltz there cannot be any doubt. Kundera is a master of contemporary literature. This novel is both an an example of virtuosity and a descent into the human soul."" L'Unite Set in an old-fashioned Central European
Vittigt og overrumplende afdækker Milan Kundera tilværelsens ulidelige lethed, manglen på virkeligt engagement i såvel kærlighed som politik, og han undrer sig over menneskets forbløffende evne til at glemme såvel historiens fejltagelser som deres egne. F
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. A chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman, now a widow, who escaped him fifteen years
The New York Times bestseller by the author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being. 'Like all great writers, Kundera leaves indelible marks on his readers' imaginations.' Salman Rushdie From a playful gesture between an old woman
The debut by author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being, of which Salman Rushdie said: 'It is impossible to do justice here to the subtleties, comedy and wisdom of this very beautiful novel.' ' A funny, sad, gripping, wise, mar
'A masterpiece' (Salman Rushdie) by the author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being. 'It took the temperature of the age as no other book did. It was the great novel of the end of European Communism: a novel of ideas and erotici
A heady, existential tale of seduction and romance by the author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being . 'An artist, clearly one of the best to be found anywhere.' Salman Rushdie 'Kundera designs fictions of the highest order.
Befriend a budding poet and his adoring mother in this seductive early novel - winner of the Prix Médicis - by the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being . 'An artist, clearly one of the greatest to be found anywhere.' Salman Rushdie 'Kun
A dazzling collection of stories - originally banned in 1968 Prague - by a ' magnificent short-story writer' ( NYT ) and author of classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being . 'Kundera is a self-confessed hedonist in a world beset by politics .
The bestselling masterpiece tale of love and exile in Prague by the author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being . 'An artist, clearly one of the best to be found anywhere.' Salman Rushdie 'Kundera designs fictions of the highest
The last novel by the international superstar and author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being. 'Kundera is the saddest, funniest, and most lovable of authors.' Times An artist, clearly one of the best to be found anywhere.' Salman Rushdie '
A provocative and rousing essay collection from one of Europe's greatest writers. The people of Central Europe cannot be separated from European history; they cannot exist outside it; but they represent the wrong side of this history; they are its vic
A provocative and rousing insight into European politics from one of the world's greatest writers. 'One of his most powerful works.' Financial Times 'A pan-European intellectual force.' Times In a moment of historic peril and uncertain
The bestselling modern classic for fans of Dostoyevsky's White Nights and Sabahattin Ali's Madonna in a Fur Coat : the iconic novel of love, angst and politics in communist Czechoslovakia. A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon: a man
A classic of literary criticism from one of the world's greatest novelists and author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being. 'A great novelist who is also a great critic.' Guardian Cervantes, Joyce, Flaubert, Broch, Tolstoy, Kafka. What disting
From the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, an unexpected and enchanting novel--the culmination of his life's work. Casting light on the most serious of problems and at the same time saying not one seri
I cant imagine reading this book without being challenged and instructed, amused, amazed and aroused, and ultimately delighted. John Simon, New York Times Book Review Milan Kunderas brilliant collection of essays is a passionate defense of art in a
""Irresistible. . . . Slowness is an ode to sensuous leisure, to the enjoyment of pleasure rather than just the search for it."" Mirabella Milan Kundera's lightest novel, a divertimento , an opera buffa , Slowness is also th
"Incites us to reflect on fiction and philosophy, knowledge and truth, and brilliantly illustrates the art of the essay." -- The New Republic "Every novelist's work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of wha
Incites us to reflect on fiction and philosophy, knowledge and truth, and brilliantly illustrates the art of the essay. The New Republic ""Every novelist's work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of
"An absolutely dazzling entertainment. . . . Arousing on every level--political, erotic, intellectual, and above all, humorous." -- Newsweek " The Book of Laughter and Forgetting calls itself a novel, although it is part fairy tale, part li
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""An intellectual heavyweight and a pure literary virtuoso, Milan Kundera takes some of Freud's most cherished complexes and irreverently whirls them about in acts of legerdemain that capture our darkest, deepest human passions. . . . The ta
""A defense of fiction and a lesson in the art of reading."" New York Times Book Review "" Testaments Betrayed is to be savored paragraph by paragraph. . . . It must be purchased, read, pondered, and argued within the
""An absolutely dazzling entertainment. . . . Arousing on every levelpolitical, erotic, intellectual, and above all, humorous."" Newsweek "" The Book of Laughter and Forgetting calls itself a novel, although it is part fairy
New York Times Bestseller ""Inspired. . . . Kundera's most brilliantly imagined novel. . . . A book that entrances, beguiles and charms us from first page to last."" Cleveland Plain Dealer Milan Kundera's sixth nove
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 T