“A novel examines not reality but existence. And existence is not what has occurred, existence is the realm of human possibilities, everything that man can become, everything he's capable of. Novelists draw up the map of existence by discovering this or that human possibilit. But again, to exist mean: 'being-in-the-world.' Thus both the character and his world must be understood as possibilities.”

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About Milan Kundera

Czech and French novelist

Milan Kundera was a Czech and French novelist. He is known for his fiction and for a career shaped by exile, first in France and later through French citizenship. Kundera went into exile in France in 1975 and became a French citizen in 1981. His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, and he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.

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Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí

1997

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Kniha smíchu a zapomnění

1987

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Valčík na rozloučenou

1976

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L'Ignorance

2003

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La lenteur

2006

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