A brilliant new novel, set in contemporary Prague, by one of the most distinguished writers of our time, Ignorance takes up... Zobraziť viac
In this entertaining and stimulating essay, one of world literature's most distinctive thinkers sets out his personal view of the history and value of the novel in Western civilization. Too often, Kundera suggests, a novel is thought about only within... Zobraziť viac
Klima, a celebrated jazz trumpeter, receives a phone call announcing that a young nurse with whom he spent a brief night at... Zobraziť viac
With the same dazzling mix of emotion and idea that characterizes his novels he illuminates the art and artists who remain... Zobraziť viac
Offers a wide range of philosophical speculations and it descants on a variety of styles. This book draws together the Czechoslovakia of the Prague Spring and the Russian invasion, the philosophy of Nietzsche, and the love affairs of a number... Zobraziť viac
A novel, divided into seven parts and exploring immortality. This is the author's seventh novel. His previous works include... Zobraziť viac
In <i>Ignorance</i>, Milan Kundera 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 Czech homeland in the early 1990s... Zobraziť viac
Kundera whirls through comedy and tragedy towards his central question: how does a person, any person, live today? ... Zobraziť viac
Faber & Faber: Slowness was Milan Kundera's first novel written in French. Disconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows... Zobraziť viac
Casting light on the most serious of problems and at the same time saying not one serious sentence; being fascinated by the reality of the contemporary world and at the same time completely avoiding realism-that's ... Zobraziť viac
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. Kundera's first since... Zobraziť viac
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... Zobraziť viac
This collection contains stories about the sport of love - Don Juanism, ageing, male and female power and seductions... Zobraziť viac
The Joke, Milan Kundera's first novel, gained him a huge following in his own country, and launched his worldwide literary reputation. Zobraziť viac
The Joke, Milan Kundera's first novel, gained him a huge following in his own country and launched his worldwide literary... Zobraziť viac
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... Zobraziť viac
<i>The Book of Laughter and Forgetting</i> is the most secret of Kundera's novels. This new translation is the first to be fully authorized by Milan Kundera... Zobraziť viac
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 ... Zobraziť viac
In <i>Ignorance</i>, Milan Kundera 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 Czech homeland in the early 1990s... Zobraziť viac
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 ... Zobraziť viac