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Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera is a Czech-born writer who went into exile in France in 1975, and became a naturalised French citizen in 1981. He sees himself as a French writer and insists his work should be studied as French literature and classified as such in book stores.






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6/10





The unsufferable lightness of being

Milan Kundera - Publisher : HarperCollins 

The Unbearable Lightness of Being takes place mainly in Prague in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It explores the artistic and intellectual life of Czech society from the Prague Spring of 1968 to the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union and three other Warsaw Pact countries and its aftermath. The main characters are: Tomáš, an adulterous surgeon his wife Tereza, a photographer...
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Pour tous les jours

Spring

To my friends

fairly easy to read

Classic modern

Between 10 and 20$

A few days









Key Emotion Indicator
7/10





Slowness

Milan Kundera - Publisher : Vertical 

The novel is a meditation on the effects of modernity upon the individual's perception of the world. It is told through a number of plot lines that slowly weave together until they are all united at the end of the book.Kundera, as narrator, visits a chateau on vacation and tells a story that seems to be a combination of fiction and fact.A Chevalier from eighteenth-century France visits the chateau...
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Between two things to do

Spring

To my boss

Easy to read

Contemporary

Less than 10$

A few hours









Key Emotion Indicator
7/10





Immortality

Milan Kundera - Publisher : HarperCollins 

Divided into seven parts, Immortality centers on Agnes, her husband Paul and her sister Laura. Part One: the Face establishes these characters. Part Two: Immortality depicts Goethe's fraught relationship with Bettina, a young woman who aspires to create a place for herself in the pantheon of history by controlling Goethe's legacy after his death. Part Three: Agnes and Laura fight, while focusing...
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For the week-ends

Spring

To my acquaintances

fairly easy to read

Classic modern

Less than 10$

A few days









Key Emotion Indicator
6/10





Life is elsewhere

Milan Kundera - Publisher : HarperCollins 

Publisher presentation: the author initially intended to call this novel The Lyrical Age. The lyrical age, according to Kundera, is youth, and this novel, above all, is an epic of adolescence an ironic epic that tenderly erodes sacrosanct values: childhood, motherhood, revolution, and even poetry. Jaromil is in fact a poet. His mother made him a poet and accompanies him (figuratively) to his love...
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Before sleep

Summer

To my parents

fairly easy to read

Contemporary

Less than 10$

A few days






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