Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera is a Czech-born French writer. Kundera went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981. His Czech citizenship was revoked in 1979 and restored in 2019. He "sees himself as a French writer and insists his work should be studied as French literature and classified as such in book stores".
Books by Milan Kundera
8 books available
Farewell Waltz
by Milan Kundera
3.9(12,685)
At a fertility spa, a jazz trumpeter's one-night stand leads to a five-day mix-up of mistaken paternity, jealous lovers, and philosophical jokes, showing how modern life has stripped us of tragedy.
Identity
by Milan Kundera
3.7(20,657)
Trapped in a coffin and facing certain death, a seventeen-year-old girl named Christy Snow questions her existence, making readers doubt the nature of identity when reality is uncertain.
The Joke
by Milan Kundera
4.0(27,166)
A student's casual postcard joke about optimism leads to political persecution and a lifetime of misguided revenge, showing the lasting effects of one impulsive act on love, identity, and the human spirit.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan Kundera
4.1(341,660)
After the Prague Spring, a surgeon, his lover, and their friends navigate love, betrayal, and existence, where every choice is final.
Life is Elsewhere
by Milan Kundera
4.0(14,908)
In an ironic story of adolescence, Jaromil, a poet dominated by his mother and caught in the communist revolution, navigates a world that gently erodes the sacred values of youth, love, and art.
The Festival of Insignificance
by Milan Kundera
3.3(13,019)
In a world without humor, Milan Kundera writes about the 'unserious,' showing readers how to find laughter and wisdom in life's small moments.
Laughable Loves
by Milan Kundera
3.9(23,605)
In a world where love is a game of strategy, Kundera shows the bittersweet irony and unexpected vanity, humiliation, and desperate search for reassurance beneath every calculated move.
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
by Milan Kundera
4.0(40,656)
Kundera explores the human condition through interconnected stories, each a variation on memory, exile, and the fight against political and personal erasure in Prague.