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5 days ago · In one of my novels, The Bastard of Istanbul, I imagined a lively and bustling cafe in a cosmopolitan quarter of the old city, a quirky hangout spot for poets, writers, artists and dreamers. I named it Cafe Kundera. The appellation was a personal, literary salute to the Czech and French author Milan Kundera. His writing on memory, forgetting, identity and authoritarianism deeply resonated with ...
1 day ago · Utopianism, as Milan Kundera explains in The Unbearable Lightness of Being, is kitsch—the logical conclusion of which is the concentration camp. The future is not preordained, and in order to change it, one must act in the present, cognizant of its constraints, close to the world and to people, and fully aware of the fact that we do not know ...
5 days ago · Milan Kundera (UK: , Czech: [ˈmɪlan ˈkundɛra] (listen); born 1 April 1929) is a Czech writer who went into exile in France in 1975, becoming a naturalised French citizen in 1981. Kundera's Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979; he received his Czech citizenship in 2019.
4 days ago · PARIS – Milan Kundera, the celebrated author whose works straddled the realms of French and Central European literature, passed away at the age of 94 in Paris on July 11. Known for his profound...
5 days ago · Totožnost, po Pomalosti druhý román, který napsal Milan Kundera francouzsky (pod názvem L’identité vyšel roku 1998, teď, rok po spisovatelově smrti, v překladu Anny Kareninové česky), je asi nejsmutnější autorovo dílo.
2 days ago · Plot Summary. The plot of On the Road unfolds as a series of adventures experienced by the protagonist, Sal Paradise, who is a stand-in for Jack Kerouac himself. The narrative begins in the late 1940s when Sal, a budding writer living in New York City, becomes enchanted by the exuberant and enigmatic Dean Moriarty, a character based on Kerouac’s real-life friend Neal Cassady.
3 days ago · The researcher, who has also translated the works of Francoise Sagan, Claudel and Milan Kundera, among others, expresses hope for deepening Sino-French literary exchanges and that the younger ...
