Books
Czech author Milan Kundera, known for novels ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being,’ ‘Identity’ and ‘The Festival of Insignificance,’ has died. He was 94.
July 12, 2023
Book review: ‘Encounter’ by Milan Kundera
Aug. 15, 2010
Milan Kundera, the “Unbearable Lightness of Being’ author who died Tuesday at 94, didn’t just liberate minds from tyranny. He freed the novel too.
July 13, 2023
There’s not much to Milan Kundera’s 10th novel, “The Festival of Insignificance” — his first work of fiction since 2000’s “Ignorance” — but then that’s part of the point.
June 12, 2015
Entertainment & Arts
Compelling essays by someone who writes of authors, composers and artists from whom he continues to learn.
Milan Kundera, the author best known for “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” has a new novel coming in English, the first in more than decade, the Guardian reports.
Feb. 3, 2015
For the Record
Milan Kundera: A review in the June 14 Arts & Books section of Milan Kundera’s novel “The Festival of Insignificance” called his previous novel “Innocence.”
June 15, 2015
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March 6, 1988
Readers of Milan Kundera’s new argument about the interpretive abuses committed against modern art--principally the novel, but also music--will find that it bears a structural and vocal resemblance to his best-known novel, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being.”
Oct. 22, 1995
The Curtain An Essay in Seven Parts Milan Kundera Translated from the French by Linda Asher HarperCollins: 168 pp., $22.95
Feb. 18, 2007