Milan Kundera

Laughable Loves

Laughable Loves is a collection of stories that first appeared in print in Prague before 1968, but was then banned. The seven stories are all concerned with love, or rather with the complex erotic games and stratagems employed by women and especially men as they try to come to terms with needs and impulses that can start a terrifying train of events. Sexual attraction is shown as a game that

A Kidnapped West

Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí

Román Milana Kundery Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí poprvé vyšel ve francouzském překladu v roce 1984 v Paříži u Gallimarda, v roce 1985 česky v Kanadě v nakladatelství Sixty-Eight Publishers. Vyprávění o lásce, o Tereze a Tomášovi, o Sabině a Franzovi, o lehkosti a tíze bytí... "Po čtyřech letech strávených v Ženevě ubytovala se Sabina v Paříži a nemohla se vzpamatovat z melancholie.Kdyby se jí

Festival of Insingnificance

Casting light on the most serious of problems and at the same time saying t one serious sentence; being fascinated by the reality of the contemporary world and at the same time completely avoiding realism-that's The Festival of Insignificance. Readers who kw Kundera's earlier books kw that the wish to incorporate an element of the unserious in a vel is t at all unexpected of him. In Immortality,

Joke

The Joke, Milan Kundera's first novel, gained him a huge following in his own country, and launched his worldwide literary reputation. 'Kundera is the saddest, funniest and most lovable of authors.' The Times