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Milan Kundera
Immortality, by Milan Kundera, the hugely acclaimed Czech novelist and author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being: ‘It will make you cleverer, maybe even a better lover. Not many novels…
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A provocative and rousing essay collection from one of Europe's greatest living writers
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera is the most secret of the acclaimed Czech writer’s novels. This new translation is the first to be fully authorized by…
The Joke, Milan Kundera’s first novel, of which Salman Rushdie wrote ‘It is impossible to do justice here to the subtleties, comedy and wisdom of this very beautiful novel. The…
Offers a wide range of philosophical speculations and it descants on a variety of styles. This book draws together the Czechoslovakia of the Prague Spring and the Russian invasion, the…
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Identity - by the hugely acclaimed Czech novelist Milan Kundera - is a novel which only provides further evidence of the astonishing literary, philosophical and psychological gifts belonging to the…
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The classic of literary criticism from one of the world’s greatest novelists
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Slowness by Milan Kundera manages to be both a heady tale of seduction and romance and, at the same time, a formidable display of existential analysis.
A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned 20 years earlier when they chose to become exiles. Will they manage to…
The first new novel from International literary heavyweight, Milan Kundera, in over 12 years - now in B format.
A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover–these are the two…
Life is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera is an intriguing early novel from the hugely acclaimed Czech novelist and author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
Milan Kundera’s new collection of essays is a passionate defence of art in an era that, he argues, no longer values art or beauty.
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In this entertaining and stimulating essay, Kundera deftly sketches out his personal view of the history and value of the novel in Western civilization.
Published simultaneously with Identity , his new novel, Farewell Waltz is a masterful new translation of Milan Kundera’s most brilliantly plotted and sheerly entertaining novel–a dark farce of sex, murder…
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A man and women enjoy a strange synchronicity when they meet upon returning to their homeland after two decades of exile and try to resume a relationship long in stasis.
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…
Milan Kundera has established himself as one of the great novelists of our time with such books as The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Immortality and The Book of Laughter and…
Out of print since 1987, Life Is Elsewhere is available again in an outstanding new translation. Kundera’s epic of adolescence tenderly erodes such sacrosanct values as childhood, motherhood, revolution, and…
A homage-variation on Denis Diderot’s ‘Jacques le fatalist.
and Rabelais with his heirs - the great novelists.In the light of their wisdom this book examines some of the great situations of our time. the testaments, the betrayed testaments…
Readers are taken through a midsummer’s night in which two tales of seduction, separated by more than 200 years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the ridiculous. They provide…
Seven dazzling tales of sexual comedy, by the writer hailed as a master of graceful illusion and illuminating surprise.
The only authorized translation of the bestselling masterpiece by one of the greatest authors of our time, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is part fairy tale, part literary criticism…
Farewell Waltz by Milan Kundera poses serious questions with a compelling and blasphemous lightness, which makes us understand that the modern world has taken away our right to tragedy.
Laughable Loves by Milan Kundera is a collection of seven masterful short stories which were banned upon their appearance in 1968.
Ludvik Jahn, joven estudiante universitario y activo miembro del Partido Comunista checo, env a a una compa era de clase una postal en la que se burla del optimismo ideol…
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An erotic and disturbing story about love and the psyche. After a brief holiday with her younger lover, Chantal begins to receive letters at her Paris home from a mysterious…
This definitive version of the novel is fully revised by the author of Immortality , which won The Independent Award for Foreign Fiction in 1991. Milan Kundera is also the…
In this story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities, Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of 20th century 'Being'. The novel encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy, and embraces…
Esta es una extraordinaria historia de amor, o sea de celos, de sexo, de traiciones, de muerte y tambien de las debilidades y paradojas de la vida cotidiana de dos…
Ariane Chemin
J. O'Brien
‘Eliot to Derrida is a book which should be read by all students contemplating enrolment for a university course in modern English or European literary studies.’ - Times Higher Educational…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Milan Kundera’s Hitchhiking Game, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
A Study Guide for Milan Kundera’s Nobody will Laugh , excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
A Study Guide for Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
Karen von Kunes
Karen von Kunes traces Milan Kundera’s creative ideas to a 1950 police report filed in Stalinist era Czechoslovakia. Demonstrating how this incident influenced Kundera’s literary trajectory and ultimately contributed to…
A Study Guide for Milan Kundera’s The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography…
