The internationally renowned Czech-born writer Milan Kundera has died at the age of 94. He was the best-known contemporary Czech novelist in the world, authoring books such as The Unbearable Lightness of Being, which became famous the world over through translations and an English-language film adaptation.
Kundera was the author of many internationally acclaimed books, such as The Joke, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, the first two of which were made into films. Tomáš Kubíček, head of the Moravian Library in Brno which houses Kundera’s library and archive, talks about what made his writing special.
“Kundera was able to write novels which include not only narrative elements, but also elements of the essay. And that is his distinctive stamp, Kundera’s unique writing style, thanks to which reading his work becomes an adventure of getting to know, rather than knowing. It is a process. His novels stimulate thought.”
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Author: Anna Fodor