Anywhere: milan kundera (Keywords)

In a moment of historic threat and uncertainty in mainland Europe, this collection, makes the case for the 'small countries' of Central Europe as the nucleus of European values and a lightning rod for its potential dangers, where language and culture play an active role in affirming national iden...

A novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried.

Agnes, her husband Paul, her sister Laura, and a hedonist Rubens explore the themes of existence.

A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon - a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanising. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals - while her other lover stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. In a world wher...

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.

Throwing light on more serious problems without pronouncing a single serious phrase, giving into the thrill of the contemporary world whilst avoiding any realism - that is 'The Festival of Insignificance'. It can be considered a synthesis of all Kundera's work. A strange synthesis. A strange epil...

'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.

This essay has been written like a novel. In the course of nine separate sections, the same characters meet and cross paths with each other. In the light of their wisdom this book examines the major situations of our time.

Throwing light on more serious problems without pronouncing a single serious phrase, giving into the thrill of the contemporary world whilst avoiding any realism - that is 'The Festival of Insignificance'. It can be considered a synthesis of all Kundera's work. A strange synthesis. A strange epil...

Jacques, a servant, and his master talk about their past relationships and the nature of their existence.

In this entertaining and stimulating collection of seven essays, Milan Kundera deftly sketches out his personal view of the history and value of the novel.

Throwing light on more serious problems without pronouncing a single serious phrase, giving into the thrill of the contemporary world whilst avoiding any realism - that is 'The Festival of Insignificance'. It can be considered a synthesis of all Kundera's work. A strange synthesis. A strange epil...

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'. This is a classic of literary criticism from this world famous author.

With the same dazzling mix of emotion and idea that characterizes his novels, Milan Kundera illuminates the art and artists who remain important to him and whose work helps us better understand the world.

Aaron Asher's translation of Life is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera leads the reader through a young man's fantasies and love affairs in a literary tour de force which oozes wit, eroticism and ideas.

A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned 20 years earlier when they chose to become exiles. 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?

This collection contains stories, which are all concerned with love, or rather with the complex erotic games employed by women and especially men as they try to come to terms with needs and impulses that can start a terrifying train of events.

From the author of 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being', this is a comic vision of our anxiety about immortality.

In this novel, Kundera whirls through comedy and tragedy, towards his central question: 'how does a person, any person, live today?' Towards his answer he writes of politics, sex, literature, modern man's alienation and of their antidotes.

In an intense and brief narrative, a moment of confusion sets in motion a complex chain of events that forces the reader to cross and recross the divide between fantasy and reality.