Milan Kundera
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Kundera has written in both [[Czech language|Czech]] and [[French language|French]]. He revises the French translations of all his books; these therefore are not considered translations but original works. Due to censorship by the [[communism|Communist]] government of Czechoslovakia, his books were banned from his native country, and that remained the case until the downfall of this government in the [[Velvet Revolution]] in 1989. | Kundera has written in both [[Czech language|Czech]] and [[French language|French]]. He revises the French translations of all his books; these therefore are not considered translations but original works. Due to censorship by the [[communism|Communist]] government of Czechoslovakia, his books were banned from his native country, and that remained the case until the downfall of this government in the [[Velvet Revolution]] in 1989. | ||
==Controversy== | ==Controversy== | ||
- | On October 13th, 2008, the Czech weekly ''[[Respekt]]'' prominently publicised an investigation carried out by the Czech Institute for Studies of Totalitarian Regimes,[http://www.ustrcr.cz/en] which alleged Kundera denounced to the police a young Czech pilot, Miroslav Dvořáček. | + | On October 13th, 2008, the Czech weekly ''[[Respekt]]'' prominently publicised an investigation carried out by the Czech Institute for Studies of Totalitarian Regimes, which alleged Kundera denounced to the police a young Czech pilot, Miroslav Dvořáček. |
German newspaper ''[[Die Welt]]'' has compared Kundera to [[Günter Grass]], the [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] winner, who in 2006 was revealed to have served in the [[Waffen-SS]] in the [[Second World War]]. | German newspaper ''[[Die Welt]]'' has compared Kundera to [[Günter Grass]], the [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] winner, who in 2006 was revealed to have served in the [[Waffen-SS]] in the [[Second World War]]. | ||
+ | ==See also== | ||
+ | *''[[The Art of the Novel]]'' | ||
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Milan Kundera (born April 1, 1929, in Brno, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech and French writer of Czech origin who has lived in exile in France since 1975, where he became a naturalized citizen in 1981. He is best known as the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, and The Joke.
Kundera has written in both Czech and French. He revises the French translations of all his books; these therefore are not considered translations but original works. Due to censorship by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia, his books were banned from his native country, and that remained the case until the downfall of this government in the Velvet Revolution in 1989.
Controversy
On October 13th, 2008, the Czech weekly Respekt prominently publicised an investigation carried out by the Czech Institute for Studies of Totalitarian Regimes, which alleged Kundera denounced to the police a young Czech pilot, Miroslav Dvořáček.
German newspaper Die Welt has compared Kundera to Günter Grass, the Nobel Prize winner, who in 2006 was revealed to have served in the Waffen-SS in the Second World War.
See also