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Kundera, Milan - mĭlˈän koondĕrˈə, 1929–, Czech-born novelist and essayist. His first novel, The Joke (1967, tr. 1974), brought him government disapproval and resulted in the loss of his citizenship. This, coupled with the 1968 Soviet invasion, prompted him to flee Czechoslovakia; he settled (1975) in France, where he became a citizen in 1980. Often


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    The Art of Memory in Exile: Vladimir Nabokov & Milan Kundera » Read Now

    by Milan Kundera, Vladimir Nabokov, Hana Pichova. 148 pgs.

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    In The Art of Memory in Exile, Hana Pichova explores the themes of memory and exile in selected novels of Vladimir Nabokov and Milan Kundera. Both writers, Pichova argues, stress how personal and cultural memory serves as a creative means of overcoming the artist's and exile's loss of homeland. In...
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    Milan Kundera: Meaning, Play, and the Role of the Author, in Critique » Read Now

    by John O'Brien. 16 pgs.

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    ...Milan Kundera: Meaning, Play, and the Role of the...taking place within the academic circle, Milan Kundera has experienced first-hand some very...himself bluntly as none...
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    Transgressions of Reading: Narrative Engagement as Exile and Return (Chap. 5 "Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Narrative Betrayal and the Ideology of Powerlessness") » Read Now

    by Robert D. Newman. 180 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...in Ulysses 83 5 Milan Kunderas The Unbearable Lightness of Being...Czechoslovakian exile MilanKundera Kunderas novel functions in terms of betrayals...becomes a series of...
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    The Language of Fiction in a World of Pain: Reading Politics as Paradox (Chap. II "Sex, Motherhood, and the State: Milan Kundera's Book of Laughter and Forgetting") » Read Now

    by Barbara J. Eckstein. 214 pgs.

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    ...Sex, Motherhood, and the State: Milan Kunderas Book of Laughter and Forgetting...values admire writers, such as Milan Kundera or Nadine Gordimer, whose governments...are...
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    The Ecstasy of Speed, in Queen's Quarterly » Read Now

    by Milan Kundera, Linda Asher. 2 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    ...The Ecstasy of Speed by Milan Kundera , Linda Asher I am driving...him, and shes cursing me too. MILAN KUNDERA is the author of The Unbearable...is an extract from La...
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    Atrocity and Amnesia: The Political Novel since 1945 (Chap. 10 "Between East and West: A Letter to Milan Kundera") » Read Now

    by Robert Boyers. 255 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    Working deliberately against the grain of assumptions dominant in the contemporary literary academy, Boyers examines novels by Gunter Grass, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Milan Kundera and others, arguing that it is necessary to speak of character, ethics, and philosophic purpose if one is to understand...
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    In Search of the Joke: An Open Letter to Milan Kundera, in New England Review » Read Now

    by Allison Stanger. 8 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Allison Stanger In Search of The Joke: An Open Letter to Milan Kundera Dear Mr. Kundera, Let me begin by making it clear that I have been deeply engaged by your work for...
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    Multicultural Writers since 1945: An A-To-Z Guide ("Milan Kundera" begins on p. 299) » Read Now

    by Alba Amoia, Bettina L. Knapp. 610 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    The end of World War II led to increased interest in multicultural concerns and a flourishing of literary and artistic endeavors. It was also a time of decolonization and the emergence of new nations and cultures clamoring for recognition and respect. The political circumstances following World War...
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    Unbearable Stardom, in New Statesman » Read Now

    by Adam Thirwell. 2 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...THIRWELL ADAM THIRWELL on Milan Kunderas escape from moral chic "Stardom...star, but your stardom is over. Milan Kunderas stardom in Britain is easily located...issue in...

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