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Kundera

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Kun·der·a  (kn-dr, knd-rä), Milan Born 1929.
Czech-born writer best known for his novels, including The Joke (1967), The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979), and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), all of which exhibit his extreme, though often comical, skepticism.


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I am personally humbled by my ignorance of all the European writers and artists who have suffered persecution during the period Milan Kundera (1996) calls the "seventy years of trial regime" in the Soviet bloc: Bunin, Meyerhold, Halas, Broch, and Vancura.
Politics, academic freedom, and the general counsel's office by Wihl, Gary / Liberal Education
Jane Austen and Milan Kundera, for example, open our inner eyes to various stages of our own development.
Art as truth by Wintermute, Carol / The Humanist
Finally, in The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Milan Kundera elaborated on this aspect of kitsch in his evocation of an authoritarian society in which "all answers are given in advance.
American Gothic: Hal Foster on Robert Gober by Foster, Hal / Artforum International
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