This highly original book imitates the protagonist, Agn s, of Kundera's novel Immortality. Like all readers of fiction, when Agn s steps out of the car...more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
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Milan Kundera
ISBN:9780061894411
A brilliant new contribution to Kundera's ongoing reflections on art and artists, written with unparalleled insight, authority, and range of reference and allusion
Milan Kundera's new collection of essays is a passionate defense of art in an era that...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:178
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Milan Kundera
ISBN:9780061894435
A brilliant new contribution to Kundera's ongoing reflections on art and artists, written with unparalleled insight, authority, and range of reference and allusion
Milan Kundera's new collection of essays is a passionate defense of art in an era that...more details Format:Paperback Pages:178
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Milan Kundera
ISBN:9780571194711
Klima, a celebrated jazz trumpeter, receives a phone call announcing that a young nurse with whom he spent a brief night at a fertility spa is pregnant. She has decided he is the father.And so begins a comedy which...more details Format:Paperback Pages:288
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Milan Kundera
ISBN:9780571195671
Sometimes - perhaps only for an instant - we fail to recognise a companion; for a moment their identity ceases to exist, and thus we come to doubt our own. The effect is at its most acute in a couple where our existence is given meaning by our perception of a lover...more details Format:Paperback Pages:160
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Milan Kundera
ISBN:9780060002107
Irena and Josef meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned twenty years earlier. Will they manage to pick up the thread of their strange love story...more details Format:Paperback Pages:208
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Milan Kundera
ISBN:9780571215508
In Ignorance, set in contemporary Prague, one of the most distinguished writers of our time takes up the complex and emotionally charged theme of exile and creates from it a literary masterpiece. A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:208
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Milan Kundera
ISBN:9780571215515
In Ignorance, set in contemporary Prague, one of the most distinguished writers of our time takes up the complex and emotionally charged theme of exile and creates from it a literary masterpiece. A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland...more details Format:Paperback Pages:208
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Milan Kundera
ISBN:9780571209187
This breathtaking, reverberating survey of human nature finds Kundera still attempting to work out the meaning of life without losing his acute sense of humour. It is one of those great unclassifiable masterpieces that appear once every twenty years or so.'It will make you cleverer...more details Format:Paperback Pages:400
This breathtaking, reverberating survey of human nature finds Kundera still attempting to work out the meaning of life without losing his acute sense of humour. It is one of those great unclassifiable masterpieces that appear once every twenty years or so.'It will make you cleverer...more details Format:Paperback Pages:400
Laughable Loves is a collection of stories that first appeared in print in Prague before 1968, but was then banned. The seven stories are all concerned with love...more details Format:Paperback Pages:304
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Milan Kundera
ISBN:9780571197774
A budding poet and his adoring mother are the central characters of this intriguing early novel by Milan Kundera. He takes us through the young man's fantasies and love affairs in a characteristic tour de force...more details Format:Paperback Pages:272
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Milan Kundera
ISBN:9780571179435
Slowness was Milan Kundera's first novel written in French. Disconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows him through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction...more details Format:Paperback Pages:144
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Milan Kundera
ISBN:9780571173372
Kundera's essay has been written like a novel. In the course of nine separate sections, the same characters meet and cross paths with each other...more details Format:Paperback Pages:288
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Milan Kundera
ISBN:9780060927516
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." In "Testaments Betrayed...more details Format:Paperback Pages:288
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Milan Kundera
ISBN:9780571227495
In seven independent, but closely related chapters, Milan Kundera presents his personal conception of the European novel, which he describes as 'an art born of the laughter of God'...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:176
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Milan Kundera
ISBN:9780571174379
'This book is a novel in the form of variations. The various parts follow each other like the various stages of a voyage leading into the interior of a theme...more details Format:Paperback Pages:320
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Milan Kundera
ISBN:9780571232819
'A magic curtain, woven of legends, hung before the world,' writes Milan Kundera in The Curtain, his fascinating new book on the art of the novel. 'Cervantes sent Don Quixote journeying and tore the curtain. The world opened before the knight errant in all the comical nakedness of its prose.' For Kundera...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:256
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Milan Kundera
ISBN:9780060995058
All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now, a quarter century after "The Joke" was first published and several years after the collapse of the Soviet-imposed Czechoslovak regime...more details Format:Paperback Pages:336
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Milan Kundera
ISBN:9780571166930
The Joke, Milan Kundera's first novel, gained him a huge following in his own country and launched his worldwide literary reputation. In his foreword Kundera explains why this completely revised translation is the definitive edition of his work.'It is impossible to do justice here to the subtleties...more details Format:Paperback Pages:336
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Milan Kundera
ISBN:9780061148521
A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover -- these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events...more details Format:Paperback Pages:314
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Milan Kundera
ISBN:9780571176564
One of a series of titles first published by Faber between 1930 and 1990, and in a style and format planned with a view to the appearance of the volumes on the bookshelf. In his story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities...more details Format:Hardback
The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a story of irreconcilable love and infidelities in which Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of twentieth-century 'Being'...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:320
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Milan Kundera
ISBN:9780061686696
A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover -- these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events...more details Format:Paperback Pages:341
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Milan Kundera
ISBN:9780060597184
When "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" was first published in English, it was hailed as "a work of the boldest mastery, originality, and richness" by critic Elizabeth Hardwick and named one of the best books of 1984 by the "New York Times Book Review...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:320
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Milan Kundera
ISBN:9780571200832
In this novel - a story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities - Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of twentieth-century 'Being' In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events...more details Format:Paperback Pages:320
In this novel - a story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities - Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of twentieth-century 'Being' In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events...more details Format:Paperback Pages:320
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Milan Kundera;Aaron Asher
ISBN:9780060997007
"It is hard to imagine anything more chilling and profound than Kundera's apparent lightheartedness."'Elizabeth PochodaIN this dark farce of a novel...more details Format:Paperback Pages:288
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Milan Kundera;Linda Asher
ISBN:9780060930318
There are situations in which we fail for a moment to recognize the person we are with, in which the identity of the other is erased while we simultaneously doubt our own. This also happens with couples--indeed...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
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Milan Kundera;Peter Kussi
ISBN:9780060932381
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. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna...more details Format:Paperback Pages:368
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Milan Kundera;Suzanne Rappaport
ISBN:9780060997038
Milan Kundera is a master of graceful illusion and illuminating surprise. In one of these stories a young man and his girlfriend pretend that she is a stranger he picked up on the road--only to become strangers to each other in reality as their game proceeds. In another a teacher fakes piety in order to seduce a devout girl...more details Format:Paperback Pages:304
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Milan Kundera;Aaron Asher
ISBN:9780060997021
The author intially intended to call this noel, " The Lyrical Age." The lyrical age, according to Kundera, is youth, and this novel, above all...more details Format:Paperback Pages:432
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Milan Kundera;Linda Asher
ISBN:9780060928414
Two tales of seduction, separated by more than two hundred years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the comic in this, Milan Kundera's lightest novel. In the 18th century...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
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Milan Kundera;Linda Asher
ISBN:9780060093747
Every novelist's work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of what the novel is. I have tried to express here the idea of the novel that is inherent in my own novels. -- Milan Kundera
Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
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Milan Kundera;Aaron Asher
ISBN:9780060932145
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. Like all his work...more details Format:Paperback Pages:320
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Milan Kundera;Linda Asher
ISBN:9780060841959
In this thought-provoking, endlessly enlightening, and entertaining essay on the art of the novel, renowned author Milan Kundera suggests that "the curtain" represents a ready-made perception of the world that each of us has--a pre-interpreted world. The job of the novelist...more details Format:Paperback Pages:168
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Milan Kundera;Michael Henry Heim
ISBN:9780060932138
A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover -- these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events...more details Format:Paperback Pages:320
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Milan Kundera;Jonathon Oliver
ISBN:9780753107140
The basis for the world-acclaimed film. Over 700,000 copies of the book sold Thomas, a top surgeon in Prague, is a master of seduction. After leaving his wife and son...more details Format:CD
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Rachel Cusk;Arthur Kundera MilanMiller
ISBN:9781929001088
Published in the U.S. since 1979, Granta is a handsomely illustrated paperback featuring outstanding articles. Grantas contributors constitute an impossibly distinguished list...more details Format:Paperback Pages:254
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KUNDERA MILAN
ISBN:9780571250899
With the same dazzling mix of emotion and idea that characterizes his novels he illuminates the art and artists who remain important to him and whose work helps us better understand the world. An astute and brilliant reader of fiction...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:176