ミラン・クンデラ

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

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

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....

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....

Si tratta sempre di amore, in queste storie. Ma un amore a cui si accompagna ogni volta la mistificazione, con effetto deflagrante. Il mondo va felicemente in pezzi...

Listeners who know Kundera's earlier books know that the wish to incorporate an element of the "unserious" in a novel is not at all unexpected of him....

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

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....

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....

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

In einem ruhigen Kurort in Böhmen schläft die Krankenschwester Rosa mit Klima, einem berühmten Trompeter, der jedoch nur seine...

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 Forgetting....

In this thought-provoking, endlessly enlightening and entertaining essay on the art of the novel, renowned author Milan Kundera suggests that 'the curtain' represents a ready-made perception of the world that each of us has - a pre-interpreted world....

There are situations in which we fail for a moment to recognise the person we are with....

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

A budding poet and his adoring mother are the central characters of this intriguing early novel by Milan Kundera....

Ein erfolgreicher Arzt und Frauenheld trifft ein unbedarftes Mädchen aus der Provinz - so begegnen sich Tomas und Teresa 1968 in Prag...

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

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....