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    The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

    Milan Kundera

    The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera is the most secret of the acclaimed Czech writer’s novels. This new translation is the first to be fully authorized by…

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    The Unbearable Lightness of Being

    Milan Kundera

    Offers a wide range of philosophical speculations and it descants on a variety of styles. This book draws together the Czechoslovakia of the Prague Spring and the Russian invasion, the…

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    The Unbearable Lightness of Being

    Milan Kundera

    A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover–these are the two…

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    The Art of the Novel

    Milan Kundera

    The classic of literary criticism from one of the world’s greatest novelists

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    Ignorance

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    A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned 20 years earlier when they chose to become exiles. Will they manage to…

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    Immortality

    Milan Kundera

    Immortality, by Milan Kundera, the hugely acclaimed Czech novelist and author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being: ‘It will make you cleverer, maybe even a better lover. Not many novels…

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    Slowness

    Milan Kundera

    Slowness by Milan Kundera manages to be both a heady tale of seduction and romance and, at the same time, a formidable display of existential analysis.

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    Identity

    Milan Kundera

    Identity - by the hugely acclaimed Czech novelist Milan Kundera - is a novel which only provides further evidence of the astonishing literary, philosophical and psychological gifts belonging to the…

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    The Festival of Insignificance

    Milan Kundera

    The first new novel from International literary heavyweight, Milan Kundera, in over 12 years - now in B format.

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    A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe

    Milan Kundera

    A provocative and rousing essay collection from one of Europe's greatest living writers

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    Milan Kundera Known and Unknown

    This collection of essays offers crucial and luminous insights into one of the best-known Czech authors, Milan Kundera, including his lesser known works.

    With essays that focus on Kundera's poetry…

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    The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts

    Milan Kundera

    In this entertaining and stimulating essay, Kundera deftly sketches out his personal view of the history and value of the novel in Western civilization.

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    Life is Elsewhere

    Milan Kundera

    Life is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera is an intriguing early novel from the hugely acclaimed Czech novelist and author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

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    Milan Kundera

    Critical essays analyze Milan Kundera’s psychological themes found frequently throughout his novels, including sexuality, love, and emotions.

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    The Joke

    Milan Kundera

    The Joke, Milan Kundera’s first novel, of which Salman Rushdie wrote ‘It is impossible to do justice here to the subtleties, comedy and wisdom of this very beautiful novel. The…

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    Translating Milan Kundera

    Michelle Woods

    This book uses new archival research to view the wider cultural scope of the translation issue involving the controversies surrounding Kundera’s translated novels. It focuses on the language of the…

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    Translating Milan Kundera

    Michelle Woods

    This book uses new archival research to view the wider cultural scope of the translation issue involving the controversies surrounding Kundera’s translated novels. It focuses on the language of the…

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    Nissarathayute Nirappakittukal

    Milan Kundera

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    The Curtain: Essays

    Milan Kundera

    A brilliant exploration of the novel - its history and its art - from one of the genre’s most distinguished practitioners.

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    El Libro de Los Amores Ridiculos

    Milan Kundera

    Taitulo original: Smeeesnae laasky – Title page verso.

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    Testaments Betrayed

    Milan Kundera

    and Rabelais with his heirs - the great novelists.In the light of their wisdom this book examines some of the great situations of our time. the testaments, the betrayed testaments…

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    La vie est ailleurs

    Milan Kundera

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    Encounter

    Milan Kundera

    Milan Kundera’s new collection of essays is a passionate defence of art in an era that, he argues, no longer values art or beauty.

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    Farewell Waltz

    Milan Kundera

    Farewell Waltz by Milan Kundera poses serious questions with a compelling and blasphemous lightness, which makes us understand that the modern world has taken away our right to tragedy.

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    Ignorance: A Novel

    Milan Kundera

    A man and women enjoy a strange synchronicity when they meet upon returning to their homeland after two decades of exile and try to resume a relationship long in stasis.

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    The Art of the Novel

    Milan Kundera

    The classic of literary criticism from one of the world’s greatest novelists

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    Testaments Betrayed: Essay in Nine Parts, an

    Milan Kundera

    Milan Kundera has established himself as one of the great novelists of our time with such books as The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Immortality and The Book of Laughter and…

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    Life is Elsewhere

    Milan Kundera

    Out of print since 1987, Life Is Elsewhere is available again in an outstanding new translation. Kundera’s epic of adolescence tenderly erodes such sacrosanct values as childhood, motherhood, revolution, and…

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    Laughable Loves

    Milan Kundera

    Seven dazzling tales of sexual comedy, by the writer hailed as a master of graceful illusion and illuminating surprise.

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    Jacques and His Master

    Milan Kundera

    A homage-variation on Denis Diderot’s ‘Jacques le fatalist.

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    Laughable Loves

    Milan Kundera

    Laughable Loves by Milan Kundera is a collection of seven masterful short stories which were banned upon their appearance in 1968.

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    The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Twentieth Anniversary Edition

    Milan Kundera

    When The Unbearable Lightness of Being was first published in English, it was hailed as a work of the boldest mastery, originality, and richness by critic Elizabeth Hardwick and named…

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    Farewell Waltz

    Milan Kundera

    Published simultaneously with Identity , his new novel, Farewell Waltz is a masterful new translation of Milan Kundera’s most brilliantly plotted and sheerly entertaining novel–a dark farce of sex, murder…

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    La Broma

    Milan Kundera

    Ludvik Jahn, joven estudiante universitario y activo miembro del Partido Comunista checo, env a a una compa era de clase una postal en la que se burla del optimismo ideol…

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    Slowness

    Milan Kundera

    Readers are taken through a midsummer’s night in which two tales of seduction, separated by more than 200 years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the ridiculous. They provide…

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    The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

    Milan Kundera

    The only authorized translation of the bestselling masterpiece by one of the greatest authors of our time, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is part fairy tale, part literary criticism…

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    The Unbearable Lightness of Being

    Milan Kundera

    A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover–these are the two…

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    El Libro de la Risa Y El Olvido

    Milan Kundera

    Mientras Tamina, una joven viuda en el exilio, quiere recuperar sus diarios intimos para reconstruir con ellos sus cada vez mas vagos recuerdos de su vida matrimonial, Mirek, en Bohemia…

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    La Insoportable Levedad del Ser

    Milan Kundera

    Esta es una extraordinaria historia de amor, o sea de celos, de sexo, de traiciones, de muerte y tambien de las debilidades y paradojas de la vida cotidiana de dos…

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    Haluka Manisha

    Milan Kundera

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    ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’

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    Identity

    Milan Kundera

    An erotic and disturbing story about love and the psyche. After a brief holiday with her younger lover, Chantal begins to receive letters at her Paris home from a mysterious…

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    The Joke: A Novel by

    Milan Kundera

    This definitive version of the novel is fully revised by the author of Immortality , which won The Independent Award for Foreign Fiction in 1991. Milan Kundera is also the…

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    Encounter

    Milan Kundera

    Milan Kundera’s new collection of essays is a passionate defence of art in an era that, he argues, no longer values art or beauty.

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    L'insoutenable legerete de l'etre

    Milan Kundera

    In this story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities, Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of 20th century Being. The novel encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy, and embraces…

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    The Unbearable Lightness of Being

    Milan Kundera

    In this story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities, Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of 20th century 'Being'. The novel encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy, and embraces…

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    Milan Kundera als Literaturkritiker

    Florian Bamberg

    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Journalismus, Publizistik, Note: 2,3, Universitat Leipzig (Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Rezensieren (Seminar), 18 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract…

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    Critical Essays on Milan Kundera

    Peter Petro

    Essays study the Czech author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, whose works usually focus on the bleakness of life under Communism.

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