BOOKS by Milan Kundera

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1	Unbearable Lightness of Being more books like this by M Kundera add to wishlist Beginning during the idyllic Prague Spring, before Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia, Kundera's novel of ideas tackles the themes of love and sex and their interdependence. Tomas, his womanizing hero, falls in love with Teresa but, even after they are married, continues his affair with Sabina--a fact that maddens the devoted Teresa, who ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.45! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Immortality more books like this by Milan Kundera add to wishlist Kundera's sixth novel, about a woman named Agnes and the results of a casual moment with her swimming instructor, is an erotic exploration of the female psyche that has been compared to MADAME BOVARY and ANNA KARENINA. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Book of Laughter and Forgetting more books like this by Milan Kundera add to wishlist Kundera whirls through comedy and tragedy towards his central question: how does a person, any person, live today? In constructing his answer, he writes of politics, sex, literature, modern man's alienation - and of their antidotes: laughter and forgetting. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.65! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The joke more books like this by Milan Kundera add to wishlist This is the first novel by the author of "Immortality", which won "The Independent" Award for Foreign Fiction in 1991. Milan Kundera is also the author of "The Book of Laughter and Fogetting". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.39! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts more books like this by Milan Kundera, Linda Asher (Translator) add to wishlist In this entertaining and stimulating essay, Kundera deftly sketches out his personal view of the history and value of the novel in Western civilization. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.35! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Life is elsewhere more books like this by Milan Kundera add to wishlist A budding poet and his adoring mother are the central characters of this early novel. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.45! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Ignorance more books like this by Milan Kundera add to wishlist In 1969, Irina exiled herself from her native Prague, living in Paris for over 20 years. Josef's life has been similar: he emigrated to Denmark. Now, older and widowed, both return to the city where, long ago, they were lovers, and attempt to recapture what originally brought them together. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The art of the novel more books like this by Milan Kundera add to wishlist A work of literary criticism in which Kundera argues that the European novel is "born out of the laughter of God". The author's previous novels include "The Joke", "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" and "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.98! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Slowness more books like this by Milan Kundera add to wishlist Readers are taken through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated by more than 200 years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the ridiculous. They provide merely a narrative framework for Kundera's novel, within which is condensed existential analysis. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts more books like this by Milan Kundera add to wishlist In this essay, Milan Kundera proves himself a brilliant defender of the moral rights of the artist and the respect due a work of art and its creator's wishes. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.91! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Identity more books like this by Milan Kundera add to wishlist A novel by the author of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". A moment of confusion sets in motion a complex chain of events which crosses and recrosses the divide between fantasy and reality. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Slowness: A Novel more books like this by Milan Kundera, Linda Asher (Translator) add to wishlist From one of the most distinguished writers of modern times comes a libertine fantasy which is also a profound meditation on contemporary life. Ruminating on how the pleasures of slowness have disappeared in today's fast-paced, future-shocked world, Kundera explores the secret bond between slowness and memory and the connection between our era's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.34! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Farewell waltz more books like this by Milan Kundera add to wishlist Klima, a celebrated jazz trumpeter, receives a phone call announcing that a young nurse with whom he spent a brief night at a fertility spa is pregnant. She has decided he is the father and so begins a comedy which, during five madcap days, unfolds with ever-increasing speed. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.92! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Twentieth Anniversary Edition more books like this by Milan Kundera add to wishlist When "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" was first published in English, it was hailed as "a work of the boldest mastery, originality, and richness" by critic Elizabeth Hardwick and named one of the best books of 1984 by the "New York Times Book Review." It went on to win the "Los Angeles Times" Book Prize for Fiction and quickly became an ... see all copies from $10.71! new only from $14.31! \| SVS
15	The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: Revised Edition more books like this by Milan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim (Translator), Philip Roth (Designer) add to wishlist Tamina and her husband flee Czechoslovakia when the communists take power--and then he dies. Exiled in Switzerland, Tamina directs all her efforts toward recovering her dead husband's love letters, to keep her company in a strange land. Kundera uses this novel as a vehicle for his own thoughts on exile, totalitarianism, and politics, but also sex, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Laughable loves more books like this by Milan Kundera add to wishlist These stories by Milan Kundera, set in Prague in the 1960s, are mostly about love and desire. They are often erotic, usually from the male point of view, and always surprising. Stories include "The Hitchhiking Game," "Dr. Havel After 20 Years," and "Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.40! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	La Ignorancia more books like this by Milan Kundera add to wishlist Bypassing the question of whether you can ever go home again, Milan Kundera's Ignorance tackles instead what happens when you actually get there. Ignorance is the story of two Czechs who meet by chance while traveling back to their homeland after 20 years in exile. Irena, who fled the country in 1968 with her now-deceased husband Martin, returns ... see all copies from $2.78! new only from $9.01! \| SVS
18	The Joke: Revised Edition more books like this by Milan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim (Translator) add to wishlist Kundera's politically-grounded novel of love and revenge has been re-translated and published for the first time in a version that satisfies the author. Kundera gives his thoughts on the translation process in a frank Author's Note. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $25.07!
19	L'immortalité : roman by Milan Kundera, Eva Bloch add to wishlist see all copies from $6.79! new only from $84.25!
20 view cover	El Libro de Los Amores Ridiculos more books like this by Milan Kundera add to wishlist Tal vez por haber sido escritas en el perodo (entre 1959, y 1968) ms feliz de la vida de Milan Kundera, segn sus propias palabras, estas narraciones son las ms alegres, las ms seriamente desvergonzadas y las ms reflexivamente divertidas de su obra. La farndula de personajes hedonistas que desfila aqu ante nosotros en busca de los juegos mltiples y ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $10.09! \| SVS
21 view cover	La Inmortalidad more books like this by Milan Kundera add to wishlist Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agnes becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that character springs a novel, a gesture of the ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $9.84! \| SVS
22 view cover	La Insoportable Levedad del Ser by Milan Kundera add to wishlist Esta es una extraordinaria historia de amor, o sea de celos de sexo, de traiciones, de muerte y tambien de las debilidades y paradojas de la vida cotidiana de dos parejas cuyos destinos se entrelazan irremediablemente. Guiado por la asombrosa capacidad de Milan Kundera de contar con cristalina claridad, el lector penetra fascinado en la trama ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.95!
23 view cover	La Lentitud by Milan Kundera add to wishlist Personajes e historias de ayer y de hoy van entrelazandose de tal manera que a nadie sorprendera que un hombre enfundado en un casco de motociclista, se aleje en su moto a toda velocidad, mientras otro hombre con una peluca blanca, adormilado e indolente, se sube a una calesa que parace salida de una estampa del pasado. see all copies from $4.34! new only from $14.25! \| SVS
24	Laughable Loves: Revised Edition more books like this by Milan Kundera, Suzanne Rappaport (Translator) add to wishlist These stories by Milan Kundera, set in Prague in the 1960s, are mostly about love and desire. They are often erotic, usually from the male point of view, and always surprising. Stories include "The Hitchhiking Game," "Dr. Havel After 20 Years," and "Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.90! \| SVS
25 view cover	Jacques and His Master: An Homage to Diderot in Three Acts more books like this by Milan Kundera, Denis Diderot (Photographer), Michael Henry Heim (Photographer) add to wishlist Kundera's play--which he calls a "variation" on Diderot's novel JACQUES LE FATALISTE (1796)--is about a lusty young serving man who travels across France with his master. The two indulge in various sexual adventures, but mostly they tell scandalous stories and engage in witty conversations about love, sex, poetry, and fate. JACQUES AND HIS MASTER ... see all copies from $2.85! new only from $10.01! \| SVS

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