Kundera, Milan

The unbearable lightness of being by Milan Kundera ( Book )
261 editions published between 1984 and 2010 in 33 languages and held by 3,483 libraries worldwide
Interweaves story and dream, past and present, and philosophy and poetry in a sardonic and erotic tale of two couples--Tomas and Teresa, and Sabina and her Swiss lover, Gerhart.

Immortality by Milan Kundera ( Book )
127 editions published between 1989 and 2009 in 24 languages and held by 2,365 libraries worldwide
Agnes, her husband Paul, her sister Laura, and a hedonist Rubens explore the themes of existence.

The book of laughter and forgetting by Milan Kundera ( Book )
173 editions published between 1978 and 2010 in 25 languages and held by 2,292 libraries worldwide
"In the seven connected sections of this...novel, different facets of the human comedy are maginified and reduced, reordered and undelrined. We meet seemingly disparate characters: a lonely waitress in exile in a foreign country trying to retrive her left-behind diaries fromher vengeful and senile mother-in-law...a student who gives up the promise of consummation with a long-pursued mistress for an evenign with a group of poets discussing love...a borrowed fur cap on the head of a Czech Communist Party hero, all that remains officially of its otherwise expunged and obliterated owner...two Americn students at a European summer school who, giving an oral report on Ionesco, ascend to heaven...a flock of ostriches in a zoo who comment profoundly on the nature of writers...But all of tehm come together in unexpected combinations and unsuspected disguises. And Kundera himself...appears not only as the author but also as a character in his own fiction, and his autobiography becomes the political history of postwar Czechoslovakia"--Cover.

The art of the novel by Milan Kundera ( Book )
112 editions published between 1986 and 2007 in 17 languages and held by 2,020 libraries worldwide
Le monde des théories n'est pas le mien.

The joke by Milan Kundera ( Book )
198 editions published between 1967 and 2007 in 26 languages and held by 1,954 libraries worldwide
Changes in contemporary Communist Czechoslovakia over a 15 year period.

Ignorance by Milan Kundera ( Book )
92 editions published between 2000 and 2011 in 25 languages and held by 1,765 libraries worldwide
A man and woman enjoy a strange synchronicity when they meet upon returning to their homeland after two decades of exile and try to resume a relationship long in stasis.

Slowness by Milan Kundera ( Book )
91 editions published between 1990 and 2008 in 24 languages and held by 1,761 libraries worldwide
A novel on the theme that the pleasure inherent in a slower rhythm of life has disappeared from our speed-obsessed age. The protagonists are two men, one who has a romance in the 18th Century, the other in the 20th Century. Subsequently, they meet for a morning-after chat. By the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

Identity by Milan Kundera ( Book )
99 editions published between 1990 and 2008 in 25 languages and held by 1,487 libraries worldwide
A novel on a woman who suffers from lack of male attention. On receiving letters from an anonymous admirer, she attributes them to various individuals and fantasizes romances with them.

Laughable loves by Milan Kundera ( Book )
178 editions published between 1963 and 2009 in 28 languages and held by 1,433 libraries worldwide
"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, then jilts her and yearns for God. In yet another girls wait in bars, on beaches, and on station platforms for the same lover, a middle-aged Don Juan who has gone home to his wife. Games, fantasies, and schemes abound in all the stories while different characters react in varying ways to the sudden release of erotic impulses" -- back cover.

The farewell party by Milan Kundera ( Book )
149 editions published between 1976 and 2011 in 25 languages and held by 1,390 libraries worldwide
Set in a Central European town, the story focuses on the interaction between eight characters: a pretty nurse, her repairman boyfriend, an oddball gynecologist, a rich American, a popular trumpeter and his obsessively jealous wife, and a former politicalprisoner and his young ward.