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Kundera, Milan
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MILAN KUNDERA (b. 1929) is a Czech-born French novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet whose works combine erotic comedy with political criticism and philosophical speculation.
Although his early poetic works are staunchly pro-communist, Kundera's novels escape ideological classification. His style of fiction, interlaced with philosophical digression, is greatly inspired by the novels of Musil and the philosophy of Nietzsche. But he has repeatedly insisted on being considered a novelist, rather than a political or dissident writer.
His first novel, THE JOKE (1967), achieved international acclaim with its comic, ironic view of the private lives and destinies of various Czechs during the years of Stalinism. His second novel, LIFE IS ELSEWHERE (1969), is a satirical portrait of the fictional poet Jaromil, a young and very naive idealist who becomes involved in political scandals, and was forbidden Czech publication.
After being allowed to emigrate with his wife to France, the Czech government stripped him of his citizenship in 1979. In the 1970s and '80s his novels, including THE FAREWELL PARTY (1976), THE BOOK OF LAUGHTER AND FORGETTING (1979), and THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING (1984), were published in France and elsewhere abroad but until 1989 were banned in his homeland. The latter in particular was one of his most successful works and is a series of wittily ironic meditations on the modern state's tendency to deny and obliterate human memory and historical truth. This was followed by IMMORTALITY (1990), which explores the nature of artistic creation; IGNORANCE (2000), a story about Czech émigrés; and THE FESTIVAL OF INSIGNIFICANCE (2013), about a group of Parisian friends.
Kundera's wide-ranging reflections on literature, morality, and the transformation of civilization as we know it, appear in THE ART OF THE NOVEL (1986), TESTAMENTS BETRAYED (1993), THE CURTAIN (2005), and ENCOUNTER (2009). Novelist Russell Banks writes, "Not since Henry James, perhaps, has a fiction writer examined the process of writing with such insight, authority, and range of reference and allusion."
The following books are in PDF and/or ePUB format as indicated:
== FICTION ==
* Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Faber, 2000). Aaron Asher, trans. -- PDF^ * Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Penguin, 1981). Michael Heim, trans. -- ePUB * Farewell Party, The (Penguin, 1977). Peter Kussi, trans. -- PDF * Farewell Waltz (Faber & Faber, 1998). Aaron Asher, trans. -- ePUB * Festival of Insignificance, The (HarperCollins, 2015). Linda Asher, trans. -- PDF * Identity (HarperCollins, 1998). Linda Asher, trans. -- PDF^ * Ignorance (HarperCollins, 2002). Linda Asher, trans. -- PDF * Immortality (Faber & Faber, 1992). Peter Kussi, trans. -- PDF * Joke, The (HarperCollins, 1992). "Definitive edn" revised by author. -- PDF + ePUB * Joke, The (Penguin, 1983). Michael Henry Heim, trans. -- PDF * Laughable Loves (Knopf, 1974). Suzanne Rappaport, trans. -- PDF * Laughable Loves (Perennial, 1999). Rappaport trans., revised -- PDF + ePUB * Life Is Elsewhere (HarperCollins, 2000). Aaron Asher, trans. -- PDF + ePUB * Life Is Elsewhere (Penguin, 1986). Peter Kussi, trans. -- PDF * Slowness (HarperCollins, 1996). Linda Asher, trans. -- PDF * Unbearable Lightness of Being (Harper, 1984). M.H. Heim, trans. -- PDF^ + ePUB
== DRAMA ==
* Jacques and His Master (Harper & Row, 1985). Michael Henry Heim, trans. -- PDF
== ESSAYS & NON-FICTION ==
* Art of the Novel, The (Grove, 1988). Linda Asher, trans. -- ePUB * Curtain, The (HarperCollins, 2007). Linda Asher, trans. -- ePUB * Encounter (HarperCollins, 2010). Linda Asher, trans. -- PDF * Interview with Christian Salmon [from Writers at Work VII, 1988] -- PDF * Testaments Betrayed (HarperCollins, 1996). Linda Asher, trans. -- PDF + ePUB
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Art of the Novel, The/Kundera, Milan - Art of the Novel (Grove, 1988).epub
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Art of the Novel, The/Kundera, Milan - Art of the Novel (Grove, 1988).jpg
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Book of Laughter and Forgetting [trans. Asher]/Kundera, Milan - Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The (Faber & Faber, 2000).jpg
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Book of Laughter and Forgetting [trans. Asher]/Kundera, Milan - Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The (Faber & Faber, 2000).pdf
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Book of Laughter and Forgetting [trans. Heim]/Kundera, Milan - Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Penguin, 1981).epub
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Book of Laughter and Forgetting [trans. Heim]/Kundera, Milan - Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Penguin, 1981).jpg
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Curtain, The/Kundera, Milan - Curtain, The (HarperCollins, 2007).epub
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Curtain, The/Kundera, Milan - Curtain, The (HarperCollins, 2007).jpg
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Encounter/Kundera, Milan - Encounter (HarperCollins, 2010).jpg
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Encounter/Kundera, Milan - Encounter (HarperCollins, 2010).pdf
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Farewell Party [trans. Kussi]/Kundera, Milan - Farewell Party (Penguin, 1977).jpg
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Farewell Party [trans. Kussi]/Kundera, Milan - Farewell Party (Penguin, 1977).pdf
