Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

James Thurber, 1894 – 1961
Milan Kundera biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Milan Kundera

Author Name:

Milan Kundera

Born As:

Other Names:

Born:

1929

Died:





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Author and critic                          
Selected Works:

Poetry:

Man: A Wide Garden - Člověk zahrada širá - 1953
The Last May - Poslední máj - 1961 – celebration of Julius Fučík
Monologues - Monology - 1965

Essays:

About the Disputes of Inheritance - 1955
The Art of the Novel: Vladislav Vancura's Path to the Great Epic - Umění románu: Cesta Vladislava Vančury za velkou epikou - 1960
The Czech Deal - Český úděl - 1968
Radicalism and Exhibitionism - Radikalismus a exhibicionismus - 1969
The Stolen West or The Tragedy of Central Europe - Únos západu aneb Tragédie střední Evropy - 1983
The Art of the Novel - L'art du Roman - 1986
Testaments Betrayed - Les testaments trahis - 1992
D'en bas tu humeras les roses - rare book in French, illustrated by Ernest Breleur - 1993
The Curtain - Le Rideau - 2005
Kastrující stín svatého Garty - Czech translation of part of Les testaments trahis - 2006

Drama:

The Owner of the Keys - Majitelé klíčů - 1962
Two Ears, Two Weddings - Dvě uši, dvě svatby - 1968
The Blunder - Ptákovina - 1969
Jacques and His Master - Jakub a jeho pán: Pocta Denisu Diderotovi - 1971

Fiction:

The Joke - Žert - 1967
Laughable Loves - Směšné lásky - 1969
The Farewell Waltz - Valčík na rozloučenou - Original translation title: The Farewell Party - 1972
Life Is Elsewhere - Život je jinde - 1973
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Kniha smíchu a zapomnění - 1978
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí - 1984
Immortality - Nesmrtelnost - 1990
Slowness - La Lenteur - 1993
Identity - L'Identité - 1998
Ignorance - L'Ignorance - 2000.                          
Kundera has lived in France since 1975, and has been a French citizen since 1981. He was born into the highly cultured middle class family of Ludvík Kundera (1891-1971), a pupil of the composer Leoš Janáček and an important Czech musicologist and pianist, the head of the Brno Musical Academy between 1948 and 1961. From early years on, Kundera learnt to play the piano with his father. Later, he also studied musicology. Musicological influences and references can be found throughout Milan Kundera's work; he even goes as far as putting notes in the text to make a point.