Milan Kundera

Si tratta sempre di amore, in queste storie. Ma un amore a cui si accompagna ogni volta la mistificazione, con effetto deflagrante. Il mondo va felicemente in pezzi...

Pietra miliare della letteratura del Novecento, il romanzo mette in scena un perfetto quadrilatero amoroso entro cui le storie dei protagonisti...

In una notte di mezza estate si intersecano due storie di seduzione, separate da più di duecento anni e oscillanti vertiginosamente fra il sublime...

"Suppose que tu rencontres un fou qui affirme qu'il est un poisson et que nous sommes tous des poissons. Vas-tu te disputer avec lui ? Vas-tu...

Qu'est-il resté des agonisants du Cambodge ? Une grande photo de la star américaine tenant dans ses bras un enfant jaune. Qu'est-il resté de Tomas...

In a moment of historic threat and uncertainty in mainland Europe, this collection, makes the case for the 'small countries' of Central Europe as the nucleus of European values and a lightning rod for its potential dangers....

Milan Kundera’s early nonfiction work feels especially resonant in our own time. In these pieces, Kundera pleads the case of the “small nations” of Europe who, by culture, are Western with deep roots in Europe....

In this dark farce of a novel, set in an old-fashioned Central European spa town, eight characters are swept up in an accelerating dance....

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....

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

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....

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....

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....

Milan Kundera has established himself as one of the great novelists of our time with such books as The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Immortality and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting....

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

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....