Milan Kundera
Born
in Brno, Czechia, Czech Republic
April 01, 1929
Died
July 11, 2023
Genre
Influences
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
245 editions
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published
1984
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
46 editions
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published
1979
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Immortality
214 editions
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published
1990
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The Joke
243 editions
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published
1967
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Laughable Loves
209 editions
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published
1970
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Identity
166 editions
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published
1997
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Ignorance
154 editions
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published
2000
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Life is Elsewhere
by
155 editions
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published
1973
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Slowness
by
169 editions
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published
1995
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Farewell Waltz
193 editions
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1972
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“You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”
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“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Polls
April 2021 Revisit the Shelf Poll
Jane EyrebyCharlotte Brontë532 pages, pub. 1847 last read July 2016
67 votes,
24.7%
The Unbearable Lightness of BeingbyMilan Kundera320 pages, pub. 1984, last read Dec. 2012
61 votes,
22.5%
The IdiotbyFyodor Dostoyevsky667 pages, pub. 1869, last read April 2016
46 votes,
17.0%
A Tree Grows in BrooklynbyBetty Smith496 pages, pub. 1943, last read Aug 2019
35 votes,
12.9%
IvanhoebyWalter Scott496 pages, pub. 1819, last read Jan 2017
26 votes,
9.6%
Don QuixotebyMiguel de Cervantes Saavedra1026 pages, pub. 1615, last read Sept. 2015
18 votes,
6.6%
DespairbyVladimir Nabokov212 pages, pub. 1934, last read Sept. 2013
18 votes,
6.6%
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