Milan Kundera

Life Is Elsewhere

Novel about young poet's idealism and disillusionment in totalitarian system

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Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera

Czech-French novelist whose work explores the political and erotic dimensions of human existence under totalitarianism. The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting are celebrated as masterpieces of late 20th-century fiction.

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