The Franco-Czech novelist Milan Kundera (1929-2023) was born in Brno and lived in France, his second homeland, since 1975 until his death. He is the author of the novels The Joke, Life Is Elsewhere, Farewell Waltz, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and the short story collection Laughable Loves--all originally in Czech. His more recent novels, Slowness, Identity, Ignorance, and The Festival of Insignificance, as well as his nonfiction works, The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain, and Encounter, were originally written in French.
"A sly and merciless lampoon of revolutionary romanticism...Kundera
commits some of the funniest literary savaging since Evelyn Waugh
polished off Dickens in A Handful of Dust." - Time
"I will say no more about this lacerating book except to urge it
upon all who care about literature in our difficult era." - Boston
Globe
"Tender and unsparing. . . Life Is Elsewhere is a remarkable
portrait of an artist as a young man." - Newsweek
"Brilliant." - Sunday Times (London)
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