21. Milan Kundera The big website about milan kundera here you ll find informations about milan kundera a biography, bibliography, interviews, essays, films, http://www.kundera.de/english/

The Big Web-Site About Milan Kundera Here you´ll find information about the author Milan Kundera and his books - by Stephan Müller - Select a link The Farewell Party Laughable Loves The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Life is Elsewhere The Joke Identity Ignorance Slowness The Unbearable Lightness of Being Immortality To the Books: Bibliography: All works and novels from Milan Kundera. Novels with explicit review. Open Forum: Tell other people what you think about Kundera and this site. Editorial: Who´s behind this website? Gallery: 13 pictures and drawings of M.K. Info-Point: Background information about Milan Kundera. Essays. A parody. Paintings. Shop: Buy books from and about Kundera directly. NEW BOOK from Kundera: “Ignorance” More information Buy direct with amazon.com Visitors since July 2000: info@kundera.de

22. Dalkey Archive Press: An Interview With Milan Kundera I came to what was to be the first of several meetings with milan kundera eager to confirm that the great popularity of one of Europe s most important http://www.centerforbookculture.org/interviews/interview_kundera.html

Clarifications, Elucidations: An Interview with Milan Kundera By Lois Oppenheim Despite his reverence for privacy, Kundera was willing to discuss a variety of topics throughout our meetings. The scope and purpose of the interview ultimately derived from our conversations were refined, however, by a mutual interest in particularizing, in clarifying a number of concrete, and not necessarily related, points of interest. What follows is such a collage. Lois Oppenheim: I would like to take advantage of these meetings with you to clarify a number of more or less concrete points. To begin, in The Art of the Novel The Art of the Novel , Central Europe is very important. Would you mind clarifying just what this notion of Central Europe represents for you, just what its real perimeters are? MK: Let's simplify the problem, an enormous one, and limit ourselves to the novel. There are four great novelists: Kafka, Broch, Musil, Gombrowicz. I call them the "pleiad" of Central Europe's great novelists. Since Proust, I can't see anyone of greater importance in the history of the novel. Without knowing them, not much of the modern novel can be understood. Briefly, these authors are modernists, which is to say that they are impassioned by a search for new forms. At the same time, however, they are completely devoid of any avant-garde ideology (faith in progress, in revolution, and so on), whence another vision of the history of art and of the novel: They never speak of the necessity of a radical break; they don't consider the formal possibilities of the novel to be exhausted; they only want to radically enlarge them.

23. Milan Kundera Writer The Unbearable Lightness of Being. milan kundera was born on April 1st 1929 in Brno, Czechoslovakia. He wrote Visit IMDb for Photos, Filmography, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0475081/

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24. Kundera, Milan | Authors | Guardian Unlimited Books In The Art of the Novel and Testaments Betrayed kundera celebrates the role of the author, with essays on Kafka, Flaubert and Rabelais. milan kundera and http://books.guardian.co.uk/authors/author/0,,-99,00.html

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26. Featured Author: Milan Kundera In This Feature; Reviews of milan kundera s Earlier Books Why milan kundera is Wrong About Dostoyevsky, by Joseph Brodsky (February 17, 1985) http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/17/specials/kundera.html

Featured Author: Milan Kundera From the Archives of The New York Times Related Links Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Reviews 'Identity' (May 7, 1998) Robert Grudin Reviews 'Identity' (May 17, 1998) In This Feature Reviews of Milan Kundera's Earlier Books Articles About Milan Kundera Articles By Milan Kundera MILAN KUNDERA Credit: Fridik Rafusson/ HarperFlamingo REVIEWS OF MILAN KUNDERA'S EARLIER BOOKS: The Joke "It reveals a great deal about the background to liberalization in Czechoslovakia, andmore importantit offers a genuinely humane look at inhumanity. 'The Joke' is a work of sharp psychological perception and great literary finesse." Life is Elsewhere ' and ' Laughable Loves ,' reviewed by Paul Theroux "'Life Is Elsewhere' is a small achievement next to 'Laughable Loves,' the stories . . . I would be very surprised if a better collection of stories appeared this year." The Farewell Party "[I]n Kundera's work, comedy and farce, although they are persistent elements in his sense of life and practice of art, are always subverted and transformed by darker, more ambiguous tones. . . . 'The Farewell Party' is the kind of 'political novel' a cunning, resourceful, gifted writer writes when it is no longer possible to write political novels." The Book of Laughter and Forgetting ,' reviewed by John Updike "This book . . . is brilliant and original, written with a purity and wit that invite us directly in; it is also strange, with a strangeness that locks us out."

27. Milan Kundera Quotes - The Quotations Page milan kundera; Young is the one that plunges in the future and never looks back. milan kundera; The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Milan_Kundera/

Quotation Search by keyword or author: Home Weblog Quotes of the Day Motivational ... Read books online at our other site: The Literature Page Quotations by Author Milan Kundera (1929 - ) Czechoslovakian novelist [more author details] Showing quotations 1 to 7 of 7 total Love is a desire for that lost half of ourselves. Milan Kundera Young is the one that plunges in the future and never looks back. Milan Kundera The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone. Milan Kundera Immortality Solitude: sweet absence of faces. Milan Kundera Imortality Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves. Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

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Language: English [ others Albanian Basque Bulgarian ... Welsh Over twenty-two million books on members' bookshelves. Home Book Suggestions Zeitgeist Groups ... add a picture Author: Milan Kundera Also known as: Milan Kendera Kundera M Kundera Milan; Translated from Kundera ... see complete list Members Reviews Rating Favorited Conversations Books by Milan Kundera combine/separate works The unbearable lightness of being 5911 copies, 46 reviews The book of laughter and forgetting 1817 copies, 12 reviews Immortality 1316 copies, 5 reviews The joke 959 copies, 9 reviews Laughable loves 704 copies, 4 reviews Identity 630 copies, 4 reviews Life is elsewhere 615 copies, 1 review Slowness 604 copies, 1 review Ignorance 551 copies, 5 reviews Farewell waltz 441 copies, 3 reviews The art of the novel 412 copies, 4 reviews Testaments betrayed : an essay in nine parts 210 copies, review The curtain : an essay in seven parts 153 copies, 3 reviews 55 copies, 1 review Nesnesitelna lehkost byti 1 copy, review see all 24 books Member ratings Average: 0.5 stars 1 stars 1.5 stars

29. Scriptorium - Milan Kundera This page contains links to sites on milan kundera, and will one day contain a full Scriptorium page. http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/kundera.html

Milan Kundera (b. 1929) This section will one day feature a Scriptorium Page on the Franco-Czech writer, Milan Kundera. The page is currently under development by Zafiro Blue. Links and Resources Offsite Milan Kundera Georgetown Kundera Bibliography Identity , but focusing on his earlier pieces, including the out-of-print poems and plays he has since rejected. Utility Amazon.com Search A dvanced Book Exchange eBay Search ... Send email to the Great Quail

30. Milan Kundera Biography (born 1929) Name milan kundera; Born April 1, 1929; Place of birth Brno, Czechoslovakia; Resides Paris, France; Awards Prix Medicis http://www.leninimports.com/milan_kundera.html

milan kundera (born 1929) biography facts selected books books ... sartre milan kundera m i l a n k u n d e r a : b i o g r a p h y ] "Happiness is the longing for repetition." - Milan Kundera biography facts selected books books ... sartre m i l a n k u n d e r a : f a c t s Name: Milan Kundera Born: April 1, 1929 Place of birth: Brno, Czechoslovakia Resides: Paris, France Awards: Prix Medicis m i l a n k u n d e r a : b i o g . Born on April 1, 1929, in Brno, Czechoslovakia, Kundera fueled his interest in the arts by first studying piano and music composition. His early musical inclination seems logical considering that his father, Ludvik Kundera, was a concert pianist and musicologist. Ludvik Kundera had earned recognition for collaborating with famed Czech composer Leos Janacek and for serving as rector of the state conservatory in Brno. The musical influence and training left an impact on Milan. Long after he became a writer, he would describe his openly constructed novels using musical terms and analogies. Kundera studied both music and film as a young man, all the while writing poetry. His first published works were anthologies of poetry, including

31. Milan Kundera - Czech Republic milan kundera is the world’s most successful and most translated author of Czech origin, a writer, poet, playwright and translator who began with poetry and http://www.czech.cz/en/czech-republic/history/famous-czechs-of-the-past-century/

Česky English Deutsch Fran§ais ... Famous Czechs of the past century / Milan Kundera Milan Kundera Milan Kundera is the world’s most successful and most translated author of Czech origin, a writer, poet, playwright and translator who began with poetry and wrote philosophical stories and novels including Laughable Loves, The Joke, The Farewell Waltz and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. Kundera has lived in France since 1975 and has been writing in French since the end of the 1980s. His masterpieces abroad include The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1982) and Immortality (1988). His works deal with the problems of internal and external human freedom and responsibility. Other novels include Slowness Identity (1996) and Ignorance Kundera returns to the Czech Republic only occasionally. He doesn't make public appearances and strictly limits the publication of his works in Czech. His novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being was not published in the Czech Republic until October 2006. Two other novels written by Kundera in the 1970s have not been published at all in Czech. His work was published at the beginning of this decade in the magazine Host and was followed by a Czech publication of his essays.

32. 33458. Kundera, Milan. The Columbia World Of Quotations. 1996 33458. kundera, milan. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. http://www.bartleby.com/66/58/33458.html

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Welcome Literature Music Movies ... 'Crack of Death' Major Awards and Honors Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Best Work of Fiction Jerusalem Prize (Israel) Austrian State Prize for European Literature (Austria) Milan Kundera Bibliography Novels and Short Stories (The Joke) (Laughable Loves) Short story collection; 3 parts, published individually in 1963, 1965 and 1968. Includes and (Life is Elsewhere) (The Farewell Waltz) A/K/A: The Farewell Party (The Book of Laughter and Forgetting) (The Unbearable Lightness of Being) Nesmrtelnost (1988) (Immortality) Pomalost; La Lenteur (1994) (Slowness) (Identity) Ignorance (2000) Plays (The Owner of the Keys) (Two Ears, Two Weddings) A/K/A: (Nonsense; Slowness; The Blunder) (Jacques and His Master) Poetry (Man: A Broad Garden) (The Last May) Monology (1957) (Monologues) Nonfiction (Arguing About Our Inheritance; On the Disputes About Our Inheritance) (The Czech Destiny; The Czech Deal) Radikalismus a Exhibicionismus (1969) (Radicalism and Exhibitionism) The Stolen West or the Tragedy of Central Europe (1983) A/K/A: The Central European Tragedy (Testaments Betrayed) (The Art of the Novel) For further information consult: The Milan Kundera page of The LofotenMoose (formerly known as The LiteraryMoose) A Milan Kundera website Themis-Athena's select bibiliography of 20th century European literature

34. Milan Kundera Quotes 36 quotes and quotations by milan kundera. milan kundera A worker may be the hammer s master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/milan_kundera.html

Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog - it's EASY! Home Quote Topics Quote Keywords ... Author Nationalities Authors: A B C D ... Z Web brainyquote.com Milan Kundera Quotes Type: Writer Quotes Category: Quotes Date of Birth: April 1 Nationality: Czechoslovakian Find on Amazon: Milan Kundera Related Authors: Francois de La Rochefoucauld Mason Cooley Voltaire H. L. Mencken ... Jeff Long A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality. Milan Kundera A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea. Milan Kundera All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual. Milan Kundera Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. Milan Kundera Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end. Milan Kundera Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation. Milan Kundera Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other. Milan Kundera For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?

35. Milan Kundera: The Book Of Nothing (a Parody) milan kundera. A Book of Nothing. by Serge Winitzki. First written 10/08/95 Last modification 6/17/97. Chapter I Thoughts http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8926/kundera1.html

Milan Kundera A Book of Nothing by Serge Winitzki First written: 10/08/95 Last modification: 6/17/97 Chapter I: Thoughts I stood beside the window and thought about this novel. What would I write it about? Each writer (and I am one, obviously) has this problem. The characters of one's novel are like flies in a pot of honey; it is much easier to attract flies than to fill the pot. I looked out of the window into the dim morning air and thought about this novel when I heard somebody loudly flush a toilet bowl. Perhaps it was that shy young girl in the apartment next door. I will call her Maria, just to make my writer's task simpler. Maria works in a local newspaper, and every morning she hurries to the tram that takes her to work. Listening to the sound of flushing toilet, I thought that she may have had far less trouble emptying her bowels than I writing this novel excreting the honey for the pot, so to speak. Obviously, the latter is more difficult due to the qualitative difference between the two substances. However, our motivations hers for emptying her bowels and mine for writing this novel are exactly the same: to relieve ourselves. The front door of the apartment building slammed, and Maria hurried to the tram stop. Why does she always seem to be in such a hurry, I asked myself. Maybe she is unconsciously trying to escape the sound of the toilet bowl by assuming this businesslike, hurried appearance? I should look more deeply into this fascinating matter.

36. "The Disillusionist: In Praise Of Milan Kundera's Hypocrisies" By Arthur Phillip In praise of milan kundera s hypocrisies. TYPE, Review kundera, milan Pictorial works The curtain an essay in seven parts (Book). THUMBNAILS http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/03/0081447

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38. Milan Kundera : Ignorance : Book Review Read a review of Ignorance by milan kundera at MostlyFiction.com. http://www.mostlyfiction.com/world/kundera.htm

skip to: page content links on this page site navigation footer (site information) Mostly Fiction BOOK REVIEWS all authors all titles newsletter home ... Author Info Milan Kundera Author's Bibliography Book Marks About the Author MOSTLYFICTION.COM BOOKSHELF: World Literature NEXT AUTHOR ... Elise Blackwell: Hunger READ MORE ... Jonathan Safran Foer: Everything is Illuminated Susan Sontag: In America Madeleine Thien: Simple Stories Anne Ursu: Spilling Clarence The Cave Jane Alison: Natives and Exotics Boris Vian: Heartsnatcher Amazon Gift Certificates If you find this site helpful please consider recommending it to your friends or place a link at your site to MostlyFiction.com. Thank you for Supporting MostlyFiction.com! (No Title) Alphonse Mucha Buy This Art Print At AllPosters.com "Ignorance" (Reviewed by Bill Robinson NOV 12, 2002) Ignorance , the new novel by Milan Kundera, easily could have been called The Book of Leaving and Forgetting . Possibly, that title would have been too similar to an earlier work, The Book of Laughter of Forgetting . Unfortunately, little laughter can be found in the new book. However, despite its overall theme of regret and remorse, it is filled with genuine insight as well as clever comment on clearly recognizable human foibles. It visits places that we have all been without itself becoming redundant.

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i Topics Authors Proverbs ... Quote-A-Day Main Menu Topics Authors Proverbs Today in History ... Contact Sponsor 7 Quotes for 'Milan Kundera' in the Database. Pages: Author Letter "M" There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes. Topic: All About Love Source: None Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought. Topic: Argument Source: None Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight. Topic: Mystics Source: None Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight. Topic: Myth Source: None Optimism is the opium of the people. Topic: Optimism Source: None The reign of imagagology begins where history ends. Topic: Perspective Source: None Happiness is the longing for repetition.

40. Michael Dirda - Michael Dirda - Washingtonpost.com THE CURTAIN An Essay in Seven Parts By milan kundera. According to milan kundera s similar literary theory of the curtain, we grow up with cultural http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/01/AR2007020101754.

var SA_Message="SACategory=" + 'opinion/columns/al/dirdam'; Hello Change Preferences Sign Out Sign In Register Now ... Pets SEARCH: washingtonpost.com Web Search Archives washingtonpost.com Columns Print This Article ... Zenware: How To Build a Distraction-Free Desktop Michael Dirda Milan Kundera on the civilizing values of the novel. By Michael Dirda Sunday, February 4, 2007; Page BW10 THE CURTAIN An Essay in Seven Parts (Derek Berwin / Fox Photos / Getty Images) What's This? Digg Google del.icio.us ... Facebook By Milan Kundera Translated from the French by Linda Asher HarperCollins. 168 pp. $22.95 Joseph Conrad once wrote that his purpose as a novelist was simply "to make you see." According to Viktor Shklovsky the influential Russian formalist critic of the 1920s and '30s our daily, automatic routines leach all the freshness from existence, so that we no longer experience the wonder of the people and life around us. Art's purpose, consequently, is to "defamiliarize" the familiar, to shake up our dulled perceptions, to reinvest the dingy, gray and arthritic universe with richness, color, vitality. According to Milan Kundera's similar literary theory of "the curtain," we grow up with cultural preconceptions that "pre-interpret" the world and close off various aspects of experience. He writes that "a magic curtain, woven of legends, hung before the world. Cervantes sent Don Quixote journeying and tore through the curtain. The world opened before the knight errant in all the comical nakedness of its prose." Ever since, the true novelist's ambition "is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not say."

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