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Milan Kundera

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  • 24-04-2005 6:50pm
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    Rredwell
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    Has anyone else read the works of this Franco-Czech author? I read Ignorance, a fairly recent novel, The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Joke in quick succession. Despite their heavy-sounding titles in some cases, his books are essentially romances with very acessible philosophical (and, in the case of Ignorance, etymological) references. His earlier novels were written in Czech, and the later ones in French. A common theme running through them is homeland, and how we identify with it. In Ignorance it is the experience of a returning Czech emigrée from Paris (Kundera himself fled Czechoslovakia for France), and in The Unbearable Lightness of Being the stories of several emigrants are told and skilfully interwoven. They aren't always about emigration though: it's the deeper theme of identity and loss.

    What does everyone else think?


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