Milan Kundera is the author of the novels The Joke, Farewell Waltz, Life Is Elsewhere, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and the short-story collection Laughable Loves—all originally written in Czech. His most recent novels Slowness, Identity, and Ignorance, as well as his nonfiction works The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain, and Encounter, were originally written in French.
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 one of the best books of 1984 by the New York Times Book Review. It w...[SEE MORE]