1. Milan Kundera - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Milan Kundera (IPA m lan kund ra) (born April 1, 1929, in Brno, Czechoslovakia, now the Czech Republic) is a Czechborn writer who has written books in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan_Kundera

Milan Kundera From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding reliable references . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (July 2007) Milan Kundera IPA [ˈmɪlan ˈkundɛra] ) (born April 1 , in Brno Czechoslovakia ) is a Czech -born writer who has written books in both Czech and French . He is best known as the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being The Book of Laughter and Forgetting , and The Joke Contents Life Work Writing style and philosophy Views on intimate life ... edit Life Kundera was born into a highly cultured, middle class family. His father, Ludv­k Kundera (1891-1971), once a pupil of the composer LeoÅ¡ Jan¡Äek , was an important Czech musicologist and pianist who served as the head of the Jan¡Äek Music Academy in Brno from 1948 to 1961. Milan learned to play the piano from his father and later went on to study musicology and musical composition. Musicological influences and references can be found throughout his work; he even goes so far as putting notes in the text to make a point. Kundera completed his secondary school studies in Brno in 1948. He studied literature and aesthetics at the Faculty of Arts at

2. Kundera Milan: The Unbearable Lightness Of Being Milan Kundera opens the novel with a discourse on Nietzsche s doctrine of the eternal recurrence. He rejects any view of the recurrence as being real or http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/personal/reading/kundera-unbearable.html

THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING By Milan Kundera. Translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim. 314 pages New York: Perennial Classics, 1999 (from 1984 original) ISBN: 0-06-093213-9 Comments by Bob Corbett October 2001 A touching and sad novel, at once a compelling love story, philosophical text, and dialogue with Frederich Nietzsche The Unbearable Lightness of Being is all of these and more, perhaps most importantly a manifesto of embracing nihilism. Milan Kundera opens the novel with a discourse on Nietzsche's doctrine of the eternal recurrence. He rejects any view of the recurrence as being real or metaphysical. It is metaphorical he assures us. In a world of objective meaninglessness one must fall into nihilism unless one acts as if one's acts recur eternally, thus giving our acts "weight," the weight of those choices we make, as though recurring eternally, living forever. Kundera rejects Nietzsche's optimism and in compelling detail and poignancy he give us the story of the painful love affair of Tomas and Tereza, condemned by fate and choice to live together, yet never ceasing to cause each other enormous pain and suffering. Tomas, a surgeon living in Prague just before the famous 1968 Spring uprising, is an incorrigible womanizer, unable to resist his unending stream of meaningless sexual flings. Tereza is drawn to him, sent to him by fate, like Moses in a bulrush basket. Tomas' constant infidelities numb her with pain; yet her unending love and need draw her to him inexorably, and he to her. From the text of a Beethoven composition he takes the line: "Es muss Sein" (it must be). He even leaves the safety of Switzerland to follow her back to Prague, sealing their fate to that oppressive regime following the Russian takeover.

3. Milan Kundera - Wikiquote From Wikiquote. Jump to navigation, search. Milan Kundera (born 192904-01) is a Franco-Czech novelist born in Brno, Moravia, now the Czech Republic. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Milan_Kundera

Milan Kundera From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation search Milan Kundera (born ) is a Franco-Czech novelist born in Brno, Moravia, now the Czech Republic. Contents Sourced The Joke (1967) The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979) The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) ... edit Sourced Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away by his unequaled imagination, they look for allegories — and come up with nothing but clich©s: life is absurd (or it is not absurd), God is beyond reach (or within reach), etc. You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself. Interview with Christian Salmon (fall 1983), Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Series Seven [Viking, 1988, ISBN 0-14-008500-9 ], pp. 217-218 A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality. New York Review of Books The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.

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document.writeln(''); document.writeln('Initializing application...'); Username Password Remember me Forgot your password? Browse Shop Log In Search Site: Milan Kundera Czech writer Main born April 1, 1929, Brno, Czech. Czech novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet whose works combine erotic comedy with political criticism and philosophical speculation. The son of a noted concert pianist and musicologist, Ludvik Kundera, the young Kundera studied music but gradually turned to writing. He published several volumes of poetry, including Monology Several volumes of short stories and a highly successful one-act play, Žert The Joke ), a comic, ironic view of the private lives and destinies of various Czechs during the years of Stalinism; translated into several languages, it achieved great international acclaim. His second novel, Život je jinde Life Is Elsewhere The Farewell Party The Book of Laughter and Forgetting ), and The Unbearable Lightness of Being ), were published in France and elsewhere abroad but until 1989 were banned in his homeland. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

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Milan Kundera Un article de Wikip©dia, l'encyclop©die libre. Aller   : Navigation Rechercher Milan Kundera (n© le er Brno Tch©coslovaquie , aujourd'hui Tch©quie ) est un ©crivain de langue tch¨que et fran§aise . N© en ancienne Tch©coslovaquie, il a obtenu la nationalit© fran§aise en Il a re§u le prix M©dicis ©tranger en (pour son roman La vie est ailleurs ), le Prix de J©rusalem en , le Prix Aujourd'hui en (pour son essai "Les testaments trahis"), le Prix Herder en et le Grand prix de litt©rature de l'Acad©mie fran§aise pour l'ensemble de son oeuvre en Sommaire Biographie P©riode tch¨que P©riode fran§aise Id©es ... Voir aussi Biographie Milan Kundera est n© en Brno , en Moravie Tch¨quie , o¹ il a v©cu jusqu'  ses ann©es de lyc©e . Il a grandi dans un milieu o¹ l' art et la culture sont pr©pond©rants. Son p¨re Ludv­k Kundera (1891-1971), c©l¨bre musicologue et pianiste tch¨que, directeur de l'acad©mie musicale de Brno lui apprend tr¨s t´t le piano . Il met   profit cet apprentissage lorsque, exclu du parti communiste , il doit vivre de petits boulots, notamment comme pianiste de jazz . La musique influence son œuvre et sa vie, mais pas seulement: son cousin

6. Milan Kundera Milan Kundera was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic) into a cultured family. His father, Ludvik Kundera, was a pianist and musicologist. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/kundera.htm

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback TimeSearch for Books and Writers by Bamber Gascoigne Milan Kundera (b. 1929) Czech-French novelist, essayist, dramatist and poet, one of the major writers of the late 20th century. Kundera's most famous work is The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), which was also made into a successful movie. Kundera has brought the novel toward philosophy and incorporated essayistic elements into his writing, creating his own concept of the novel as "a feast of many courses." "Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into the heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant." (from The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic) into a cultured family. His father, Ludvik Kundera, was a pianist and musicologist. Kundera was educated at Charles University and at the Film Faculty of the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Prague. Before becoming a professor of literature at the Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studies in Prague, he worked as a manual laborer and as a jazz pianist. Kundera joined the Communist Party for the first time in 1948, the year of the communist takeover, but was dispelled in 1950 for his unorthodox opinions. "Communism enthralled me in much the way Stravinsky, Picasso and Surrealism had," Kundera later confessed. In 1956, his membership was reinstated, continuing until 1970.

7. Milan Kundera - Wikipedia Translate this page Suo padre, Ludvik, era un famoso pianista ed anche il giovane Kundera si è cimentato nella musica, soprattutto jazz. L elemento musicale farà sempre parte http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan_Kundera

Milan Kundera Da Wikipedia, l'enciclopedia libera. Vai a: Navigazione cerca Indice Cenni biografici La scrittura Bibliografia Poesia ... Collegamenti esterni Milan Kundera Brno 1 aprile ) ¨ un poeta saggista e romanziere ceco modifica Cenni biografici Studia filosofia e musica a Praga . Suo padre, Ludvik , era un famoso pianista ed anche il giovane Kundera si ¨ cimentato nella musica, soprattutto jazz . L'elemento musicale far  sempre parte dei futuri scritti dell'autore. Nel si laurea alla Facolt  di Arti Cinematografiche AMU , dove in seguito terr  corsi di letteratura Nel , ancora studente, si iscrive al Partito comunista , ne viene espulso nel per divergenze d'opinione; ma nel si iscrive di nuovo. Partecipa inoltre al movimento della Primavera di Praga , e per questo viene licenziato e gli viene tolta la cittadinanza cecoslovacca. Rifugiatosi in Francia , dove vive tuttora con la moglie Vera Hrabankova , insegna all' Universit  di Parigi e di Rennes Sebbene dopo l'espulsione dal suo Paese le sue opere vi siano state proibite, Kundera continuer  a scrivere in ceco fino ad epoche recenti.

8. Milan Kundera - Wikipedia, Wolna Encyklopedia Milan Kundera (ur. 1 kwietnia 1929, Brno) czeski pisarz, eseista, od 1975 mieszkaj cy i pracuj cy we Francji, od 1981 obywatel Francji, znany przede http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan_Kundera

Milan Kundera Z Wikipedii Skocz do: nawigacji szukaj Milan Kundera (ur. 1 kwietnia Brno czeski pisarz, eseista, od mieszkajÄ cy i pracujÄ cy we Francji , od obywatel Francji, znany przede wszystkim jako autor Nieznośnej lekkości bytu Spis treści Å»ycie Tw³rczość Polskie wydania jego dzieł Bibliografia ... edytuj Å»ycie Kundera urodził się w inteligenckiej rodzinie, jego ojciec był dyrektorem Akademii Muzycznej w Brnie . Od najmłodszych lat uczył się gry na pianinie , studiował także muzykologię. Ukończył szkołę średniÄ w Brnie w roku. Potem studiował literaturę na Uniwersytecie Karola w Pradze . W roku, z powod³w politycznych, musiał przerwać studia. Szkołę wyższÄ ukończył w roku. Pisarz należał do pokolenia, kt³re nie zaznało przedwojennej, wolnej Czechosłowacji . Jego dorastanie opierało się na doświadczeniach z lat wojny, z okupacji niemieckiej . To pchnęło go w kierunku poglÄ d³w marksistowskich , od był członkiem Czeskiej Partii Komunistycznej. W roku został usunięty z partii, za działalność antypartyjnÄ . Dla Kundery było to inspiracjÄ do napisania powieści "Å»art" ( ). Partia ponownie przyjęła go w

9. Milan Kundera | Prague Life The Czech Republic has its share of controversial writers (not to mention filmmakers Hrabal, Kafka, and Milan Kundera, whose anti-Party stance tended to http://www.prague-life.com/prague/milan-kundera

Czech's legendary writer The Czech Republic has its share of controversial writers (not to mention filmmakers Hrabal Kafka , and Milan Kundera, whose anti-Party stance tended to get him in trouble with the authorities, and his trouble with the ladies tended to get him labeled as a misogynist (hey, it worked for Hemmingway ). Kundera was an extremely private person and guarded his personal life, which he said was “nobody’s business.” Influenced by Czech structuralism, he thought that literary texts should be perceived on their own merits, without the interference of factors outside the book, like the author’s personal life. Of course, it could be argued that it is impossible to have an objective biography, especially with a writer as dynamic as Kundera. Kundera was born on 1 April 1929 in Brno, Czechoslovakia. His father was a Czech musicologist and pianist, and Kundera was taught music from a young age; later, musical themes would appear in most of his novels. He completed secondary school in Brno in 1948, then studied literature and aesthetics but soon switched to the Film Academy in Prague, which he graduated in 1952; that year, he was first appointed as a lecturer in world literature at the Film Academy. Kundera tended to have a complicated relationship with the Communist Party. He belonged to group of young Czechs who didn’t remember pre-war Czechoslovakia, and were mostly influenced by WWII and the German occupation, which propelled them towards Marxism and Party membership. He joined the Czechoslovak Communist Party in 1948, but then was expelled for “anti-party activities” in 1950, an event that would greatly influence him and later appeared in his thinly-veiled autobiographical novel

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Milan Kundera aus Wikipedia, der freien Enzyklop¤die Wechseln zu: Navigation Suche Milan Kundera 1. April in Br¼nn Tschechoslowakei ) ist einer der bekanntesten tschechischen Schriftsteller. Bekannt wurde er durch das dreib¤ndige Prosawerk Das Buch der l¤cherlichen Liebe (1969). Das kommerziell erfolgreichste Buch Kunderas ist Die unertr¤gliche Leichtigkeit des Seins (1982). Seit 1993 schreibt Kundera in franz¶sischer Sprache. Inhaltsverzeichnis Leben Tschechoslowakei Frankreich Werke (Auswahl) ... Bearbeiten Leben Bearbeiten Tschechoslowakei Kundera wurde 1929 in ein kultiviert-b¼rgerliches Umfeld der jungen Tschechoslowakei geboren; sein Vater Ludv­k Kundera , ein Sch¼ler von LeoÅ¡ Jan¡Äek , war ein bekannter Pianist, Musikwissenschaftler und sp¤terer Rektor der Musikhochschule in Br¼nn (1948 bis 1961). Sein Cousin ist der bekannte tschechische Schriftsteller Ludv­k Kundera . Der Junge lernte bereits fr¼h Klavierspielen; Musik zieht sich als Motiv und Strukturelement durch sein ganzes Werk. 1945 ¼bersetzte der Gymnasiast ein Gedicht des russischen Dichters Wladimir Majakowski , das in der Zeitschrift Gong ver¶ffentlicht wurde. Vermutlich unter dem Einfluss seines Cousins entstanden erste eigene lyrische Arbeiten; eine davon wurde 1946 in der Zeitschrift

12. Milan Kundera - Wikipedia, La Enciclopedia Libre Translate this page Milan Kundera milan kund ra, no kun d ra (n. 1 de abril de 1929) es un escritor nacido en Brno, República Checa. Desde 1975 reside en Francia. http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan_Kundera

Milan Kundera De Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre Saltar a navegaci³n bºsqueda Milan Kundera 'milan 'kundɛra, no kun'dɛra ] (n. 1 de abril de ) es un escritor nacido en Brno Repºblica Checa . Desde reside en Francia Tabla de contenidos Biografia Novelas Relatos Obra po©tica ... editar Biografia Al t©rmino de la Segunda Guerra Mundial se afili³ al Partido Comunista del que fue expulsado tras los sucesos de . Experto en historia del arte , estudi³ en la Universidad Carolina de Praga y dio clases de historia del cine en la Academia de Mºsica y Arte Dram¡tico desde 1959 a 1969, y posteriormente en el Instituto de Estudios Cinematogr¡ficos de Praga. Fue jornalero y mºsico de jazz. Su primera novela, La broma fue traducida a doce idiomas y obtuvo en 1968 el Premio de la Uni³n de Escritores Checoslovacos. En , a consecuencia de la invasi³n sovi©tica a su pa­s, sus obras se prohibieron y qued³ sin empleo. En consigui³ emigrar a Francia. Entre ese a±o y , ense±³ literatura comparada en la Universidad de Rennes, y m¡s tarde en la ‰cole des Hautes ‰tudes de Paris. La vida est¡ en otra parte obtiene el Premio M©dicis a la mejor novela extranjera publicada en Francia durante el a±o de su aparici³n. Su siguiente novela

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This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Milan Kundera Born: 1-Apr Birthplace: Brno, Czechia Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Author Nationality: Czechia Executive summary: The Unbearable Lightness of Being Father: Ludvik Kundera (concert pianist) Mother: Milada Kunderova-Janosikova Wife: Vera Hrabankova (m. 1967) University: Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Prague Professor: University of Rennes (1975-78) Prix Médicis étranger 1973 for Life Is Elsewhere Citizenship Revoked 1979 (Czechoslovakia) Naturalized French Citizen Author of books: Zert , novel, "The Joke") Life Is Elsewhere The Book of Laughter and Forgetting The Unbearable Lightness of Being , novel) Immortality , novel) Slowness Identity Farewell Waltz Ignorance Do you know something we don't? Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile

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Sign in Create an account Help Latest issue ... Features Granta 11: Milan Kundera, Greetings from Prague "In November 1956, the director of the Hungarian News Agency, shortly before his office was flattened by artillery fire, sent a telex to the entire world with a desperate message announcing that the Russian attack against Budapest had begun. The dispatch ended with these words: 'We are going to die for Hungary and for Europe.' What did this sentence mean?" Contents: Leonard Michaels , Save me from this Love Slawomir Mrozek , A Letter Raymond Tallis , Certain Thoughts Arising... Ian McEwan , An Interview with Milan Kundera Milan Kundera , Soul and Body Milan Kundera , Somewhere Behind Milan Kundera , A Kidnapped West or Culture Bows Out Salman Rushdie , Outside the Whale Martha Gellhorn , Testimonial , Mystery without End Mario Vargas Llosa , Cheap Intellectuals Don DeLillo , Human Moments in World War III Slawomir Mrozek , Deeper into the Heart of Borneo (Pt. II) Jay McInerney , The Night Shift Ariel Dorfman , Chile Also see The Spirit of Prague By This collection of essays charts five critical decades in the history of Czechoslovakia.

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Milan Kundera Immortality The Czech writer Milan Kundera , b. Apr. 1, 1929, has lived in France since 1975, persuaded to self-exile by the censoring or suppression of his work by the government of his native country. Kundera has long denied any political motivation in his writings, however. His work is always humorous, skeptical, and fundamentally pessimistic in describing the universal human condition, whether under Communism or elsewhere. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979; Eng. trans., 1980) is his most celebrated novel. Other highly regarded works include The Joke (1967; Eng. trans., 1982); Laughable Loves , a collection of short stories originally published in the 1960s (Eng. trans., 1974); Life Is Elsewhere (1969; Eng. trans., 1974); and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984; Eng. trans., 1984). In The Art of the Novel (1988), a collection of essays, Kundera repeats his conviction that the novel must be "autonomous," created independent of any system of political belief. "Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas."

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Milan Kundera (b. 1st April, 1929) University of Glasgow) Milan Kundera is one of the most important contemporary Czech writers. He is one of the few Czech writers who have achieved wide international recognition. In his native Czechoslovakia, Kundera was regarded is an important author and intellectual from his early twenties. Each of his creative works and each of his contributions to the public political and cultural discourse always provoked a lively debate in the context of its time. In the first part of his creative career, Kundera was a communist, although from the inception, his fellow-believers considered him to be an unorthodox thinker. The story of his writing is a story of many Czech intellectuals of his generation: it is the story of freeing themselves of the Marxist dogma and of gaining and communicating important insights, based on the traumatic experience of life under totalitarianism in Central Europe. Later, he also studied musicology. Musicological influences can be found throughout Milan Kundera's work. y for the second time.

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