Milan Kundera

A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon, a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing....

The author initially intended to call this novel The Lyrical Age. The lyrical age, according to Kundera, is youth, and this novel, above all, is an epic of adolescence....

Games, fantasies, and schemes abound in all the stories, while different characters react in varying ways to the sudden release of erotic impulses....

A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon, a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing....

Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera....

One of the great masterpieces of modern Latin American fiction, Terra Nostra is concerned with nothing less than the history of Spain and of South America....

All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications....

Qu'est-il resté des agonisants du Cambodge ? Une grande photo de la star américaine tenant dans ses bras un enfant jaune. Qu'est-il resté de Tomas...

Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Musil....

Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s....

Irena and Josef meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned 20 years earlier....

In this dark farce of a novel, set in an old-fashioned Central European spa town, eight characters are swept up in an accelerating dance....

There are situations in which we fail for a moment to recognize the person we are with, in which the identity of the other is erased while we simultaneously doubt our own....

Disconcerted and enchanted, the listener follows the narrator of Slowness through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the comic....

Milan Kundera has established himself as one of the great novelists of our time....

Pietra miliare della letteratura del Novecento, il romanzo mette in scena un perfetto quadrilatero amoroso entro cui le storie dei protagonisti...

Milan Kundera’s early nonfiction work feels especially resonant in our own time. In these pieces, Kundera pleads the case of the “small nations” of Europe who, by culture, are Western with deep roots in Europe....

Casting light on the most serious of problems and at the same time saying not one serious sentence....

In this thought-provoking, enlightening, and entertaining essay on the art of the novel, Kundera suggests that "the curtain" represents a ready-made perception of the world that each of us has....

Jacques and His Master is a deliciously witty and entertaining "variation" on Diderot's novel Jacques le Fatalist, written for Milan Kundera's "private pleasure" in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia....