Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it...... more

literary savaging since Evelyn Waugh polished off Dickens in A Handful of Dust."-- Time Milan Kundera initially intended to...... more

, renowned author Milan Kundera suggests that "the curtain" represents a ready-made perception of the world that each of us...... more

"Kundera once more delivers a seductive, intelligent entertainment ... [with] elegance and grace." -... more

delighted." --John Simon, New York Times Book Review Milan Kundera’s brilliant collection of essays is a passionate defense of...... more

for it." -- Mirabella Milan Kundera’s lightest novel, a divertimento, an opera buffa, Slowness is also the first of this...... more

skill at building on and out from the significant moment, Milan Kundera has placed such a situation and the resulting wave...... more

his country and his young woman ward. It is perhaps the most brilliantly plotted and sheer entertaining of Milan Kundera’s...... more

"A defense of fiction and a lesson in the art of reading." --New York Times Book Review "Testaments ... more

avoiding realism--that s The Festival of Insignificance. Readers who know Milan Kundera s earlier books know that the wish to...... more

is. I have tried to express the idea of the novel that is inherent in my own novels." -- Milan Kundera Kundera...... more