Milan Kundera

A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon, a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing....

All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications....

Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy and Musil....

Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera....

Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s....

A budding poet and his adoring mother are the central characters of this intriguing early novel by Milan Kundera....

Irena and Josef meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned 20 years earlier....

Milan Kundera's lightest novel, a divertimento, an opera buffa, Slowness is also the first of this author's fictional works to have been written in French....

Milan Kundera's brilliant collection of essays is a passionate defence of art in an era that, he argues, no longer values art or beauty....

There are situations in which we fail for a moment to recognise the person we are with....

Milan Kundera is a master of graceful illusion and illuminating surprise....

Listeners who know Kundera's earlier books know that the wish to incorporate an element of the "unserious" in a novel is not at all unexpected of him....

Jacques and His Master is a deliciously witty and entertaining "variation" on Diderot's novel Jacques le Fatalist, written for Milan Kundera's "private pleasure" in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia....

Games, fantasies, and schemes abound in all the stories, while different characters react in varying ways to the sudden release of erotic impulses....

The author initially intended to call this novel The Lyrical Age. The lyrical age, according to Kundera, is youth, and this novel, above all, is an epic of adolescence....

Milan Kundera has established himself as one of the great novelists of our time....

All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications....

Irena and Josef meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned 20 years earlier....

In this thought-provoking, enlightening, and entertaining essay on the art of the novel, Kundera suggests that "the curtain" represents a ready-made perception of the world that each of us has....

Casting light on the most serious of problems and at the same time saying not one serious sentence....