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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 His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.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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Average rating: 4.01 · 898,968 ratings · 60,517 reviews · 149 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Unbearable Lightness of Being 4.11 avg rating — 547,320 ratings — published 1984 — 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
	The Book of Laughter and Forgetting 3.95 avg rating — 54,496 ratings — published 1979 — 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
	Immortality 4.14 avg rating — 43,290 ratings — published 1990 — 3 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 — 40,807 ratings — published 1967 — 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
	Laughable Loves 3.80 avg rating — 39,329 ratings — published 1963 — 8 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 — 33,528 ratings — published 1997 — 4 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 — 28,061 ratings — published 2000 — 3 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
	Life is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera, Aaron Asher 3.96 avg rating — 21,805 ratings — published 1973 — 4 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 — 22,780 ratings — published 1995 — 4 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 — 20,210 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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November 2014 Revisit the Shelf Classics Poll

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

20 votes, 15.5%

1953, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, 238 pages

16 votes, 12.4%

1962, We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson, 160 pages

15 votes, 11.6%

1866, Crime and Punishment byFyodor Dostoyevsky, 545 pages

12 votes, 9.3%

1883, Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, 311 pages

10 votes, 7.8%

1951, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, 277 pages

10 votes, 7.8%

1847, Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, 867 pages

10 votes, 7.8%

1898, The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, 192 pages

9 votes, 7.0%

1887, A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle, 108 pages

8 votes, 6.2%

1929, The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, 326 pages

7 votes, 5.4%

1935, Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier, 320 pages

6 votes, 4.7%

1981, The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, 314 pages

6 votes, 4.7%

129 total votes

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