61. ReadingGroupGuides.com - The Unbearable Lightness Of Being By Milan Kundera milan kundera s masterful novel, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), tells the interlocking stories of these four relationships, with a primary focus http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides_U/unbearable_lightness_of_being1.asp

Enter your search terms Submit search form By Title By Author By Genre Most Requested ... HarperCollins The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera List Price: Pages: Format: Paperback ISBN: Publisher: HarperCollins Tereza and Tomas, Tomas and Sabina, Sabina and Franz, Franz and Marie-Claudefour people, four relationships. Milan Kundera's masterful novel, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), tells the interlocking stories of these four relationships, with a primary focus on Tomas, a man torn between his love for Tereza, his wife, and his incorrigible "erotic adventures," particularly his long-time affair with the internationally noted painter, Sabina. The world of Kundera's novel is one in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and fortuitous events. It is a world in which, because everything occurs only once and then disappears into the past, existence seems to lose its substance and weight. Coping with both the consequences of their own actions and desires and the intruding demands of society and the state, Kundera's characters struggle to construct lives of individual value and lasting meaning. A novel of ideas, a provocative look at the ways in which history impinges on individual lives, and a meditation on personal identity

62. Goodreads | Milan Kundera Get all the rants and raves about milan kundera s books on Goodreads.com where you can see what your friends are reading. http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6343.Milan_Kundera

advanced search my account sign in home ... groups Milan Kundera author profile born April 01, 1929 gender male place of birth Brno, Czech Republic about this author edit data books by Milan Kundera combine editions avg rating: 3.94 53 distinct works The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Hardcover) by Milan Kundera (avg rating: 4.08, 6946 ratings) 59 editions my rating: starRatings[ratingIndex++] = [ 9717, -1]; checkStars(9717, -1); Added to my books! add my review The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Paperback) by Milan Kundera (avg rating: 4.06, 2229 ratings) 32 editions my rating: starRatings[ratingIndex++] = [ 240976, -1]; checkStars(240976, -1); Added to my books! add my review Immortality (Paperback) by Milan Kundera (avg rating: 4.00, 1480 ratings) 18 editions my rating: starRatings[ratingIndex++] = [ 28634, -1]; checkStars(28634, -1); Added to my books! add my review The Joke (Hardcover) by Milan Kundera (avg rating: 3.77, 954 ratings) 23 editions my rating: starRatings[ratingIndex++] = [ 26114, -1]; checkStars(26114, -1); Added to my books!

63. Word Spy - Milan Kundera —milan kundera, Czech novelist, playwright, and poet, The Art of the Novel, 1988. Posted on September 12, 2003 at 915 PM http://www.wordspy.com/WAW/Kundera-Milan.asp

Home Subjects Archives Quotations Search: Search Tips Milan Kundera Czech novelist, playwright, and poet WORDS ABOUT WORDS For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence? Life is Elsewhere Posted on April 3, 2000 at 8:27 PM Milan Kundera quotations Permalink Comments WORDS ABOUT WORDS The Art of the Novel Posted on September 12, 2003 at 9:15 PM Milan Kundera quotations Permalink Comments WORDS ABOUT WORDS The sole raison d'etre of a novel is to discover what only the novel can discover. A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality. The Art of the Novel Posted on April 28, 2003 at 3:50 PM Milan Kundera quotations Permalink Comments Words About Words: Quotations Index Author Index Recent posts: defictionalization elder-proof intensivist Frankenstein veto ... sharp number Select an archive: A B C D ... Z Other links: Top 100 Words Recent Words Recent Quotes Word Spy, The Book ... Paul McFedries

64. Who Is Milan Kundera? Brief and Straightforward Guide Who is milan kundera? http://www.wisegeek.com/who-is-milan-kundera.htm

Who is Milan Kundera? ad_unit_target='mainAdUnit'; X Close this window Milan Kundera was born on 1 April 1929 in Brno, Bohemia, which is now called Czechoslovakia. During his high school years, he first showed literary leanings by writing his first poems. In the aftermath of World War II, he worked as a jazz musician and then enrolled in college. At the Prague Academy of Performing Arts, he studied film, literature and music. He then moved on to become a professor of film at the same academy. It was around this time that Milan Kundera joined the editorial staff of literature magazines such as, Listy and Literarni Novini . Like many other Czech intellectuals of the time, he also joined the Communist Party in 1948. Two years later, he was expelled from the party for “individualistic tendencies”. He later rejoined the party for fourteen years between 1956 and 1970. Throughout the 50s, Kundera worked as a translator and essayist. He was also working at the time as an author of stage plays. By this time, Milan Kundera had published several volumes of poems, but in 1953 he published his first prose book. Laughable Loves was a collection of short stories Kundera had written between 1958 and 1960 which centered on the human condition and relationships between men and women. He expressed deep, expansive themes that ran from humor to

65. Kitsch In The Work Of Milan Kundera The contribution of kundera s novels on the analysis and definition of kitsch in literature. http://aatseel.org/program/1999/abstract-utf8-28.html

66. Milan Kundera And The Art Of The Political Novel Abstract This paper examines milan kundera’s views on the contrasting logics of art and politics. What kundera is inciting us to do, political scientists, http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p41747_index.html

Most common word stems: polit kundera est les ... cultur Citation: URL: http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p41747_index.html MLA citation: Grenier, Yvon. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC Sep 01, 2005 Online PDF http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p41747_index.html APA citation: Grenier, Y. (2005, Sep) Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC PDF from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p41747_index.html Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: This paper examines Milan Kundera’s views on the contrasting logics of art and politics. What Kundera is inciting us to do, political scientists, is to pay more attention to both the nature and the importance of the non-primarily political content of political forms, that is to say the cultural (aesthetic, emotional, religious, psychological) dimension of politics. He is also inviting us to be more critical of the self-aggrandizing and fairly mechanistic logic of the political, a challenge that appears less daunting when contrasted with the different, if not necessarily “better”, logic of art. The paper concludes with critical reflections on the political virtue of artists and the responsibility of the intellectual. Document Information: Document Type: PDF Page count: Word count: Text sample:

67. Milan Kundera's "The Unbearable Lightness Of Being" Finally Released In Czech Re It s been nine years since Czech readers have had a chance to buy a new novel by milan kundera, but at last the most eagerly anticipated release will hit http://www.radio.cz/en/article/84515

The international service of Czech Radio Text only version 27-1-2008, 08:45 UTC News Previous Archive Daily news sent to you by e-mail ... Czechs in History Czech Music Encore Magic Carpet Czechs Today From the Archives ... ICE - Insight Central Europe Events and Projects Bohemian Carnevale Presidential elections Christmas Competition - Results Czech Christmas ... Archive About Radio Prague Digital broadcasting How to listen to RP Radio Prague on FM Confirmation of Reception ... Logos About the Czech Republic www.czech.cz The Czech Republic in dates History in a nutshell The Czech Republic through Children's Eyes ... Heart of Europe Magazine Useful Information New driving rules Czech Centres Residence Permits Czech Links ... Current Affairs A daily in-depth look at current events in the Czech Republic. Milan Kundera's "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" finally released in Czech Republic [24-10-2006] By Linda Mastalir Listen 16kb/s 32kb/s It's been nine years since Czech readers have had a chance to buy a new novel by Milan Kundera, but at last the most eagerly anticipated release will hit bookstore shelves this week. The novel that made Milan Kundera an international success, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," has been published in Czech by Brno-based Atlantis Publishing. Milan Kundera Milan Kundera is an author known for guarding his texts, paying especially careful attention to translated editions of his works. Though the Moravian-born author's most famous work, "Nesnesitelna lehkost byti", or "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," was written in Czech shortly after Milan Kundera left Czechoslovakia and settled in Paris. He completed the work in 1982, and it first appeared in French translation in 1984. The novel soon achieved international fame, with translations appearing in English, German, Hungarian, Polish, and Russian. But until now, the only edition ever released in Czech was that published in 1985 by the exile publishing house, Sixty-Eight Publishers, run by Josef Skvorecky and his wife, Zdena Salivarova, in Toronto, Canada. Jiri Srstka, Milan Kundera's Czech literary agent, explains why it took so long for the book to appear officially in the Czech Republic.

68. Kundera, Milan - Immortality kundera, milan Immortality. kundera Immortality. http://www.scribd.com/doc/104596/Kundera-Milan-Immortality

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69. FileRoom.org - Milan Kundera's "The Joke" of Artwork The Joke......Artist milan kundera Confronting Bodies Czechoslovak authorities Date of Action 1968 Specific Location Czechoslovakia http://www.thefileroom.org/documents/dyn/DisplayCase.cfm/id/1238

Name: Milan Kundera's "The Joke" Date: Location: Europe Subject Political/Economic/Social Opinion Medium Literature Artist : Milan Kundera Confronting Bodies : Czechoslovak authorities Date of Action Specific Location : Czechoslovakia Description of Artwork : "The Joke" is the tale of a young communist party official who sends a postcard to his girlfriend. On it he writes the joke, "Optimism is the opium of the people! The healthy atmosphere stinks! Long live Trotski!" For this he is found as being an enemy of the state, expelled from his university, and sentenced to work in the coal mines. Description of Incident : "The Joke" was published in 1967, but after the Warsaw Pact invasion of 1968, it was banned completely. Not only that but Kundera was expelled from the Communist party, kicked out of film school, had all his works confiscated from libraries and bookshops, had his plays banned from theaters, and was forbidden to travel to the West. Results of Incident : In 1969, Kundera worked with American publishers to make an English translation. Although the English version managed to keep the parts about the oppression of writing in eastern Europe, Kundera was disappointed that they did not follow his use of punctuation and reflect his writing style. Not until 1992 was an English version that satisfied him published. Source : Censorship: A World Encyclopedia. Ed. Derek Jones. Chicago; London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001.

70. SparkNotes: The Unbearable Lightness Of Being: Important Quotations Explained Home English Literature Study Guides The Unbearable Lightness of Being Important Quotations Explained. The Unbearable Lightness of Being http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/unbearablelightness/quotes.html

saveBookmark("", "", ""); Shopping Cart Checkout Home English ... The Unbearable Lightness of Being : Important Quotations Explained - Navigate Here - Context Plot Overview Character List Analysis of Major Characters Themes, Symbols, and Motifs Part 1: Lightness and Weight Part 2: Soul and Body Part 3: Words Misunderstood Part 4: Soul and body Part 5: Lightness and Weight Part 6: The Grand March Part 7: Karenin's Smile Important Quotations Explained Key Facts Study Questions Quiz Suggestions for Further Reading Important Quotations Explained "From tender youth we are told by father and teacher that betrayal is the most heinous offence imaginable. But what is betrayal? Betrayal means breaking ranks and breaking off into the unknown. Sabina knew of nothing more magnificent than going off into the unknown." Explanation for Quotation #1 "'You mean you don't want to fight the occupation of your country?' She would have liked to tell them that behind Communism, Fascism, behind all occupations and invasions lurks a more basic, pervasive evil and that the image of evil was a parade of people marching by with raised fists ad shouting identical syllables in unison." Explanation for Quotation #2 "'Not at all,' said Tereza. 'They're the same.' Neither the editor nor the photographer understood her, and even I find it difficult to explain what she had in mind when she compared a nude beach to the Russian invasion."

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