Ahmad Sharabiani. The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a 1984 novel by Milan Kundera, about two women, two men, a dog and their lives in the 1968 Prague Spring period of Czechoslovak history. From the book: “The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become.

November 30, 1980. The Most Original Book of the Season. By JOHN UPDIKE. THE BOOK OF LAUGHTER AND FORGETTING. By Milan Kundera. Translated by Michael Henry Heim. his book, as it bluntly calls itself, is brilliant and original, written with a purity and wit that invite us directly in; it is also strange, with a strangeness that locks us out.

ISBN. 978-0-06-099505-8. OCLC. 28124158. The Joke ( Czech: Žert) is Milan Kundera 's first novel, originally published in 1967. It describes how a student's private joke derails his life, and the entwined stories of his lovers and friends grappling with the shifting roles of folk traditions and religion under Communist Czechoslovakia .

^{Czech writer Milan Kundera, who explored being and betrayal over half a century in poems, plays, essays and novels including The Unbearable Lightness of Being, has died aged 94 after a prolonged illness, Anna Mrazova, spokeswoman for the Milan Kundera Library, has confirmed. Famously leaving his homeland for France in 1975 after earlier being}

Czech-born writer Milan Kundera, who has died in Paris at the age of 94, lived almost half his life in France. A self-described Francophile, he wrote his later works in French and was convinced

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