Milan Kundera - Libros y biografía

'A masterpiece' (Salman Rushdie) by the author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being. 'It took the temperature of the age as no other book did. It was the great novel of the end of European...

A heady, existential tale of seduction and romance by the author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being.'An artist, clearly one of the best to be found anywhere.' Salman Rushdie'Kundera designs...

A dazzling collection of stories - originally banned in 1968 Prague - by a 'magnificent short-story writer' (NYT) and author of classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being.'A self-confessed hedonist in...

The bestselling masterpiece tale of love and exile in Prague by the author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being. 'An artist, clearly one of the best to be found anywhere.' Salman Rushdie'A...

An invigorating novelistic essay, rich in literary wisdom, from the international superstar author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.'A masterpiece.' Independent'Nothing so much as a gauntlet, thrown...

'A cult figure.' Guardian'A dark and brilliant achievement.' Ian McEwan'Shamelessly clever ... Exhilaratingly subversive and funny.' Independent'A modern classic ... As relevant now as when it was first...

"After Farewell Waltz there cannot be any doubt. Kundera is a master of contemporary literature. This novel is both an an example of virtuosity and a descent into the human soul." —L'UniteSet in an old-fashioned...

"Suppose que tu rencontres un fou qui affirme qu'il est un poisson et que nous sommes tous des poissons. Vas-tu te disputer avec lui ? Vas-tu te déshabiller devant lui pour lui montrer que tu n'as pas...

“We should welcome the context Kundera gives for the struggles between Russia and Europe, and the plight of those caught between them. His defense of small languages, small cultures, and small nations...

New York Times Bestseller"Inspired. . . . Kundera's most brilliantly imagined novel. . . . A book that entrances, beguiles and charms us from first page to last." — Cleveland Plain DealerMilan Kundera's...

"An absolutely dazzling entertainment. . . . Arousing on every level—political, erotic, intellectual, and above all, humorous." —Newsweek"The Book of Laughter and Forgetting calls itself a novel, although...

“I can’t imagine reading this book without being challenged and instructed, amused, amazed and aroused, and ultimately delighted.” —John Simon, New York Times Book ReviewMilan Kundera’s brilliant collection...

"Le monde des théories n'est pas le mien. Ces réflexions sont celles d'un praticien. L'œuvre de chaque romancier contient une vision implicite de l'histoire du roman, une idée de ce qu'est le roman. C'est...

Aussitôt paru dans Le Débat, en novembre 1983, cet article, traduit dans toutes les langues européennes, a sonné comme un plaidoyer et une accusation. Plaidoyer pour la défense de l’Europe centrale (Hongrie,...

L'auteur avait tout d'abord pensé intituler ce roman L'âge lyrique. L'âge lyrique, selon Kundera, c'est la jeunesse, et ce roman est avant tout une épopée de l'adolescence ; épopée ironique qui corrode...

'"Je sais que tu as toujours été un type droit et que tu en es fier. Mais pose-toi une question : Pourquoi dire la vérité ? Qu'est-ce qui nous y oblige ? Et pourquoi faut-il considérer la sincérité comme...

Dans une ville d'eaux au charme suranné, huit personnages s'étreignent au gré d'une valse qui va s'accélérant : une jolie infirmière ; un gynécologue fantaisiste ; un richard américain (à la fois saint...

I. Le geste brutal du peintre : sur Francis Bacon II. Romans, sondes existentielles III. Les listes noires ou divertimento en hommage à Anatole France IV. Le rêve de l'héritage intégral V. Beau comme...

"Un rideau magique, tissé de légendes, était suspendu devant le monde. Cervantes envoya don Quichotte en voyage et déchira le rideau. Le monde s'ouvrit devant le chevalier errant dans toute la nudité...

Première partie : Le visage Deuxième partie : L'immortalité Troisième partie : La lutte Les sœurs. Les lunettes noires. Le corps. L'addition et la soustraction. La femme plus âgée, l'homme plus jeune....

"Irresistible. . . . Slowness is an ode to sensuous leisure, to the enjoyment of pleasure rather than just the search for it." — MirabellaMilan Kundera's lightest novel, a divertimento, an opera buffa,...

"A thoughtful, intricate, ambivalent novel with the reach of greatness in it." —John Updike"It is impossible to do justice here to the subtleties, comedy, and wisdom of this very beautiful novel. Milan...

“An elegant, personalized integration of anecdote, analysis, scholarship, memory and speculation. . . . Not since Henry James, perhaps, has a fiction writer examined the process of writing with such insight,...

“Kundera once more delivers a seductive, intelligent entertainment … [with] elegance and grace.” — Washington Post Book World“Nothing short of masterful.”  — NewsweekA brilliant novel set in contemporary...

A deliciously witty and entertaining "variation" on Diderot's novel Jacques le Fatalist, written for Milan Kundera's "private pleasure" in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia.When...

“Far more than a conventional novel. It is a meditation on life, on the erotic, on the nature of men and women and love . . . full of telling details, truths large and small, to which just about every...

"An intellectual heavyweight and a pure literary virtuoso, Milan Kundera takes some of Freud's most cherished complexes and irreverently whirls them about in acts of legerdemain that capture our darkest,...

“Slender but weighty. . . . What is moving about this novel is its embrace of what has always driven Kundera, the delicate state of living between being and nothingness.”— Boston GlobeFrom the internationally...

"A defense of fiction and a lesson in the art of reading." —New York Times Book Review"Testaments Betrayed is to be savored paragraph by paragraph. . . . It must be purchased, read, pondered, and argued...

“Incites us to reflect on fiction and philosophy, knowledge and truth, and brilliantly illustrates the art of the essay.” — The New Republic"Every novelist's work contains an implicit vision of the history...