books by Milan Kundera
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Milan Kundera
The Art of the Novel (Perennial Classics)
Milan Kundera
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
, 2003
Knowledge is the novel's only morality
In these brilliant reflections Milan Kundera discusses fundamental characteristics of the novel, its history and its immorality. The object of the novel is the enigma of the self (the subject) functioning in a world full of ambiguities, where all things human are ...
The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts
Milan Kundera
Harper Perennial
, 2008
A Literary Charismatic
Kundera's book about the novel is not exactly as billed. These are not seven essays. What we have is a set of notes, some speculations and assertions about the past and future of the novel and its place in the world of literature and art. Since these happen to be ...
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan Kundera
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
, 1999
Classic, devastating
THE BOOK OF LAUGHTER AND FORGETTING is a sophisticated work of art. An amalgam of experimental fiction, straightforward storytelling, magical realism and metafiction, it successfully grapples with bigger than big themes, portraying the crucible that was Czechoslovakia ...
Laughable Loves
Milan Kundera
Harper Perennial
, 1999
Finding Humor in the Erotic Impulse.
"When it comes to commerce, the erotic is a touchy issue, because while everyone may covet the erotic life, everyone also hates it as the source of their troubles, their frustrations, their yearnings, their complexes, their sufferings" Milan Kundera, Identity (p. ...
Slowness: A Novel
Milan Kundera
Harper Perennial
, 1997
Kundera's 'Slow' Meditation on Pleasure.
Slowness offers a lesson for these fast-paced times, where "time is money," multi-tasking is a talent, and couples must schedule time together for their sexual interludes. Published after his better-known novels The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Immortality, Milan ...
Immortality (Perennial Classics)
Milan Kundera
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
, 1999
Oh I love this book.
I picked up Unbearable Lightness at the library and thought I ought to read it because it seemed like I should. And I did. And I was right. So I thought, hm, I'm going to read everything Milan Kundera ever wrote. So I picked up Immortality at the library and ...
The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel
Milan Kundera
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
, 1999
great
i really enjoyed this book, it's one of those ones you have to think about. the story follows two couples, tomas and tereza and sabina and franz. these people are used to embody certain ideals and characteristics, and i interpreted their actions more as metaphor rather ...
The Joke (Definitive Version)
Milan Kundera
Harper Perennial
, 1993
political or not
At the end of the French edition I have there is a short comment of the author about the history of The Joke, including its interdiction in Czechoslovakia and the bad translations it had to go through afterwards. And finally, Kundera seems to feel relieved that now, ...
Ignorance: A Novel
Milan Kundera
Harper Perennial
, 2003
You can't go home again
"Ignorance" is a story about memory: how much are we actually capable of remembering and how often do our memories fail us? In this novel, two characters encounter each other at a Paris airport during a return trip to Prague. Josef and Irena both fled the country ...
Identity: A Novel
Milan Kundera
Harper Perennial
, 1999
A Lesson for Lovers.
Milan Kundera published Identity (L'Identité) after moving to France from Czechoslovakia in 1975. Kundera is perhaps best known for his 1984 novel, The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Two things make Identity unique. It is arguably the most traditional novel Kundera ...
LA Insoportable Levedad Del Ser/the Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
TusQuets
, 1993
Empathy
I agree with the latter review. This book requires a unique perception, a deeper understanding of the of human folly--of love. I'm sure Kundera has a cult following--people who are very spiritual & intellectual. The book's about all the abstract things that make ...
Life Is Elsewhere
Milan Kundera,
Aaron Asher
Harper Perennial
, 2000
A Poet at Odds with Totalitarianism.
Who hasn't felt that life is happening elsewhere? Milan Kundera is perhaps best known for The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Set in World War II Czechoslovakia, where people were imprisoned for their opinions, his 1973 novel, Life Is Elsewhere (Zivot je jinde), is a ...
Le Livre Du Rire Et De Loubli
Milan Kundera
Gallimard French
, 1999
Jacques & His Master
Milan Kundera
Harper Perennial
, 1985
Kundera's first (and only) play
Milan Kundera always called himself a novelist. He makes a fine distinction between writers and novelists. He thinks that his poems and his play (this play) are a peripheral part of his work. However, this work is important for Kundera. It is a variation of one of his ...
Wim Delvoye: Cloaca - New & Improved
Georges Bataille
,
Peter Bexte
, ...
Rectapublishers
, 2002
Named for the ancient sewer in Rome, Belgian conceptualist Wim Delvoye's new and improved "Cloaca" is a room-sized shit-making machine whose bowels process two meals a day as well as a mouthful of complex themes: scatalogy, hi-lo culture, the aesthetics of the ugly and disgusting, man as machine and vice-versa. Many of these same concerns are ...
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