Milan Kundera
The Unbearable Lightness of BeingMilan Kundera; Milans Kundera
ISBN: 9780613621656
Publisher: Bt Bound Publication Date: 2003 Binding: Hardcover Interweaves story and dream, past and present, and philosophy and poetry in the sardonic and erotic tale of two couples--Tomas and Teresa, and Sabina and her Swiss lover, Gerhart. Other editions: Softcover - 2008 |
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IgnoranceMilan Kundera; Linda Asher
ISBN: 9780060002107
Publisher: Perennial Publication Date: 2003 Binding: Softcover 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, interrupted almost as soon as it began and then lost in the tides of history? The truth is that after such a long absence "their memories no longer match." Other editions: Softcover - 2003, Hardcover - 2002 |
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Los Testamentos Traicionados / Testaments BetrayedMilan Kundera
ISBN: 9788483109144
Publisher: Tusquets Editor Publication Date: 2003 Binding: Softcover Other editions: Softcover - 2002 |
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The Art of the NovelMilan Kundera
ISBN: 9780060093747
Publisher: Perennial Publication Date: 2003 Binding: Softcover 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. Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Musil. He is especially penetrating on Hermann Broch, and his exploration of the world of Kafka's novels vividly reveals the comic terror of Kafka's bureaucratized universe. Kundera's discussion of his own work includes his views on the role of historical events in fiction, the meaning of action, and the creation of character in the post-psychological novel. Other editions: Softcover - 2000, 1988 |
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La Ignorancia / IgnoranceMilan Kundera
ISBN: 9788483108871
Publisher: Tusquets Publication Date: 2003 Binding: Softcover Other editions: Hardcover - 2000 |
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La Despedida / The Farewell PartyMilan Kundera
ISBN: 9788472232440
Publisher: Tusquets Publication Date: 2002 Binding: Hardcover Other editions: Softcover - 2002 |
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La Lentitud / SlownessMilan Kundera
ISBN: 9788483106587
Publisher: Tusquets Editor Publication Date: 2002 Binding: Softcover Other editions: Hardcover - 2002 |
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La Identidad / IdentityMilan Kundera
ISBN: 9788483107423
Publisher: Tusquets Editor Publication Date: 2002 Binding: Softcover Other editions: Hardcover - 1998 |
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LA Insoportable Levedad Del SerMilan Kundera
ISBN: 9789687723013
Publisher: Tusquets Publication Date: 2002 Binding: Hardcover |
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El Libro De Los Amores Ridiculos / Laughable LovesMilan Kundera
ISBN: 9789687723747
Publisher: Tusquets Publication Date: 2002 Binding: Hardcover |
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LA InmortalidadMilan Kundera
ISBN: 9788472231610
Publisher: Tusquets Editor Publication Date: 2002 Binding: Softcover Other editions: Softcover - 1997 |
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LA BromaMilan Kundera
ISBN: 9788432216282
Publisher: Seix Barral Publication Date: 2002 Binding: Softcover Other editions: Softcover - 1998 |
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El Arte De La Novela / The Art of the NovelMilan Kundera
ISBN: 9788483106907
Publisher: Tusquets Editor Publication Date: 2002 Binding: Softcover Other editions: Softcover - 2002 |
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The Book of Laughter and ForgettingMilan Kundera; Aaron Asher
ISBN: 9780060926083
Publisher: Harpercollins Publication Date: 1996 Binding: Softcover Commissioned and closely monitored by Milan Kundera himself, this new translation brings a clarity and unmatched fidelity to the author's original text. Widely held as a work of genius, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that first brought him to the forefront of the international literary scene. Rich in stories, characters and imaginative range, it was written while Kundera was still forbidden to publish in his home country of Czechoslovakia, which was then behind the Iron Curtain. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of modern existence -- from the posthumous erasure of "enemies" of communism from the historical record, to the subtle agony of the fading memory of a lost love, to the bizarre sexlessnes of modern promiscuity -- are explored with boldness, subversive humor and the magical power of fiction. Other editions: Softcover - 2001, Hardcover - 1996, Softcover - 1994, Softcover - 1989, Softcover - 1981, 1980 |
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Life Is ElsewhereMilan Kundera; Aaron Asher
ISBN: 9780060997021
Publisher: Perennial Publication Date: 2000 Binding: Softcover The author intially intended to call this noel, The Lyrical Age. The lyrical age, according to Kundera, is youth, and this novel, above all, is an epic of adolescence; an ironic epic that tenderlyerodes scarosanct values: childhood, motherhood, revolution, and even poetry. Jaromil is in fact a poet. His mother made hima poet and accompanies him (figuratively) to his love bed and (literally) to his deathbed.A ridiculous and touching character, horrifying and totally innocent ("innocence with its bloody smile"!), Jaromil is at the same time a true poet.He's no creep, he's Rimbaud.Rimbaud entrapped by the communist revolution, entrapped in a somber farce. Other editions: Softcover - 2000, Softcover - 1994, Hardcover - 1974 |
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LA Ignorancia/IgnoranceMilan Kundera
ISBN: 9788483101315
Publisher: Tusquets Editor Publication Date: 2000 Binding: Softcover |
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Granta 11Milan Kundera
ISBN: 9780140073836
Publisher: Granta Books Publication Date: 1999 Binding: Softcover |
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ImmortalityMilan Kundera
ISBN: 9780060932381
Publisher: Perennial Publication Date: 1999 Binding: Softcover 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, Kundera's Agnes becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that character springs a novel, a gesture of the imagination that both embodies and articulates Milan Kundera's supreme mastery of the novel and its purpose; to explore thoroughly the great, themes of existence. Other editions: Softcover - 1992, 1991, Hardcover - 1991 |
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Laughable LovesMilan Kundera; Suzanne Rappaport
ISBN: 9780060997038
Publisher: Perennial Publication Date: 1999 Binding: Softcover Seven dazzling tales of sexual comedy, by the writer hailed as a master of graceful illusion and illuminating surprise. Other editions: Softcover - 1988, 1974 |
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IdentityMilan Kundera
ISBN: 9780060175641
Publisher: Harpercollins Publication Date: 1998 Binding: Hardcover Milan Kundera's Identity, translated from the French by Linda Asher.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. That also happens with couples -- indeed, above all with couples, because lovers fear more than anything else "losing sight" of the loved one.With stunning artfulness in expanding and playing variations on the meaningful moment, Milan Kundera has made this situation -- and the vague sense of panic it inspires -- the very fabric of his new novel. Here brevity goes hand in hand with intensity, and a moment of bewilderment marks the start of a labyrinthine journey during which the reader repeatedly crosses the border between the real and the unreal, between what occurs in the world outside and what the mind creates in its solitude. Of all contemporary writers, only Kundera can transform such a hidden and disconcerting perception into the material for a novel, one of his finest, most painful, and most enlightening. Which, surprisingly, turns out to be a love story. Other editions: Softcover - 1999 |
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Farewell WaltzMilan Kundera; Aaron Asher; Harpercollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780060997007
Publisher: Harpercollins Publication Date: 1998 Binding: Softcover "It is hard to imagine anything more chilling and profound than Kunderas apparent lightheartedness."Elizabeth PochodaIN this dark farce of a novel, set in an old-fashioned Central Euroepean spa town, eight characters are swept up in an accelerating dance: a pretty nurse and her repairman boyfriend; an oddball gynecologist; a rich Amrican (at once saint and Don Juan); a popular trumpeter and his beautiful, obsessively jealous wife; an unillusioned former political prisoner about to leave his country and his young woman ward.Perhaps the most brilliantly plotted and sheerly entertaining of Milan Kunderas novels, Farewell Waltz poses the most serious questions with a blasphemous lightness that makes us see that the modern world has deprived us even of the right to tragedy.Written in Bohemia in 1969-70, this book was first published (in 1976) in France under the title La valse aux adieux (Farewell Waltz), and later in thirty-four other countries. This beautiful new translation, made from the French text prepared by the novelist himself, fully reflects his own tone and intentions. As such it offers an opportunity for both the discovery and the rediscovery of one of the very best of a great writers works."Kundera remains faithful to this subtle, wily, devious talent for a fiction of `erotic possibilities. "New York Times Book Review"Farewell Waltz shocks. Black humor. Farcical ferocity. Admirably tender portraits of women." Le Point (Paris)"After Farewell Waltz there cannot be any doubt. Kundera is a master of contemporary literature. This novel is both an example of virtuosity and a descent into the human soul."L'Unit, (Paris) |
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L'identite: RomanMilan Kundera
ISBN: 9782070751945
Publisher: Gallimard Publication Date: 1997 |
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Die Unertraegliche Leichtigkeit des Seins: RomanMilan Kundera
ISBN: 9783596259922
Publisher: Distribooks Inc Publication Date: 1997 Binding: Softcover |
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Valcik Na Rozloucenou: RomanMilan Kundera
ISBN: 9788071081364
Publisher: Atlantis Publication Date: 1997 |
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SlownessMilan Kundera; Linda Asher
ISBN: 9780060173692
Publisher: Harpercollins Publication Date: 1996 Binding: Hardcover |
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