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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 His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, and he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.
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Poetry: more sayings
- “We can burst the bonds which chain us,Which cold human hands have wrought,And where none shall dare restrain…”Charlotte Brontë
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Writing: more sayings
- “Ivanov's fear was of a literary nature. That is, it was the fear that afflicts most citizens who, one fine (o…”Roberto Bolaño
- “The word is only a representation of the meaning; even at its best, writing almost always falls short of full…”Stephen King
- “The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy.”Enya
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Books by Milan Kundera
Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí
1997
Kniha smíchu a zapomnění
1987
Valčík na rozloučenou
1976
L'Ignorance
2003
La lenteur
2006