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Milan Kundera

Born

in Brno, Czechia, Czech Republic

April 01, 1929

Died

July 11, 2023

Genre

Literature & Fiction

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Milan Kundera (1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a Czech and French novelist. He went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981. His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.

Kundera wrote in Czech and French. He revises the French translations of all his books; people therefore consider these original works as not translations. He is best known for his novels, including The Joke (1967), The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979), and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), all of which exhibit his extreme though often comical skepticism.
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	The Unbearable Lightness of Being 4.10 avg rating — 558,490 ratings — published 1984 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book of Laughter and Forgetting 3.94 avg rating — 55,176 ratings — published 1979 — 218 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Immortality 4.14 avg rating — 43,931 ratings — published 1990 — 242 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Joke 4.03 avg rating — 41,522 ratings — published 1967 — 265 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Laughable Loves 3.80 avg rating — 40,071 ratings — published 1979 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Identity 3.69 avg rating — 34,213 ratings — published 1997 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ignorance 3.81 avg rating — 28,543 ratings — published 2000	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera, Aaron Asher 3.96 avg rating — 22,115 ratings — published 1973 — 149 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Slowness by Milan Kundera, Linda Asher (Translator) 3.60 avg rating — 23,194 ratings — published 1995 — 180 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Farewell Waltz 3.87 avg rating — 20,596 ratings — published 1972 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.”
― Milan Kundera

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“You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”
― Milan Kundera

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“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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June 2016 Revisit the Shelf Reread

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, 536 pages, 1980

31 votes, 14.2%

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, 251 pages, 1817

23 votes, 10.5%

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, 496 pages, 1943

21 votes, 9.6%

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, 311 pages, 1985

21 votes, 9.6%

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, 311 pages, 1883

19 votes, 8.7%

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle, 256 pages, 1902

18 votes, 8.2%

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, 489 pages, 1859

18 votes, 8.2%

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, 320 pages, 1984

13 votes, 5.9%

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, 192 pages, 1962

13 votes, 5.9%

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, 672 pages, 1860

11 votes, 5.0%

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, 255 pages, 1856

10 votes, 4.6%

East of Eden by John Steinbeck, 601 pages, 1952

10 votes, 4.6%

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, 554 pages, 1838

7 votes, 3.2%

The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk, 560 pages, 1951

4 votes, 1.8%

219 total votes

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