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Milan Kundera (IPA: ) (born April 1 1929 in Brno, Czechoslovakia) is a Franco-Czech writer. He is best known as the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
Life
Kundera has lived in France since 1975, and has been a French citizen since 1981. He was born into the highly cultured middle class family of Ludvík Kundera (1891-1971), a pupil of the composer Leoš Janáček and an important Czech musicologist and pianist, the head of the Brno Musical Academy between 1948 and 1961. From early years on, Kundera learnt to play the piano with his father. Later, he also studied musicology. Musicological influences can be found throughout Milan Kundera's work.
The author completed his secondary school studies in Brno in 1948. He then started studying literature and aesthetics at the Faculty of Arts at Charles University, but after two terms he transferred to the Film Faculty of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, where he first attended lectures in film direction and then in script writing. In 1950, he was temporarily forced to interrupt his studies for political reasons. After graduation in 1952 he was appointed as lecturer in world literature at the Film Academy. Kundera belonged to the generation of young Czechs who had not properly experienced the pre-war democratic Czechoslovak Republic. Their growing up was greatly influenced by the experiences of the Second World War and the German occupation. The experience of German totalitarianism instilled in these young people a somewhat black-and-white vision of reality. It propelled them towards Marxism and membership of the Communist Party. Milan Kundera joined the ruling Czechoslovak Communist Party in 1948, still in his teens. In 1950 he and another Czech writer, Jan Trefulka, were expelled from the party for "anti-party activities". Trefulka described the incident in his novella Pršelo jim štěstí (Happiness rained on them, 1962), Kundera used the incident as an inspiration for the main theme of his novel Žert (The Joke, 1967). Milan Kundera was re-admitted into the Communist Party in 1956. In 1970, he was expelled from the Party for the second time. Kundera, along with other Czech artists and writers such as Václav Havel, was involved in the 1968 Prague Spring, the brief period of reformist optimism that was eventually crushed by a Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August of 1968.
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Profit? RT @kyleplacy: What do u think abt this statement: "Business has only two functions - marketing & innovation." by Milan Kundera?
iggypintado (iggy pintado) Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:28:41 -0000
Profit? RT @kyleplacy: What do u think abt this statement: "Business has only two functions - marketing & innovation." by Milan Kundera?
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pinpointdave (pinpointdave) Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:25:59 -0000
RT @kyleplacy: What do you think about this statement: "Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation." by Milan Kundera -?
Provocative but how is it helpful? RT @kyleplacy: "Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation." Milan Kundera
billbean (Bill Bean) Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:09:52 -0000
Provocative but how is it helpful? RT @kyleplacy: "Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation." Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera er udnævnt til æresborger i sin fødeby Brno, i det østlige #Tjekkiet, for sit livsværk: http://tinyurl.com/yztrqp4
pavelhelge (pavelhelge) Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:04:21 -0000
Milan Kundera er udnævnt til æresborger i sin fødeby Brno, i det østlige #Tjekkiet, for sit livsværk: http://tinyurl.com/yztrqp4
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Milan Kundera wird Ehrenbürger seiner Geburtsstadt - https://www.triboox.de/autoren-leser/community/news/
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Anti-agency - The rhetorical situation and the dynamism of the functions of laughter in the works of Milan Kundera.
Kitsch in the Work of Milan Kundera - The contribution of Kundera's novels on the analysis and definition of kitsch in literature.
Milan Kundera - Includes his biography by Dr. Jan Culik from the Glasgow University.
Milan Kundera in English - A short selection of his works.
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