BOOKS by Milan Kundera

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1	The Book of Laughter and Forgetting more books like this by Milan Kundera Kundera whirls through comedy and tragedy towards his central question: how does a person, any person, live today? In constructing his answer, he writes of politics, sex, literature, modern man's alienation - and of their antidotes: laughter and forgetting. see all copies from £1.40! new only from £7.27! \| first editions
2	Immortality more books like this by Milan Kundera Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agnes becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that character springs a novel, a gesture of the ... see all copies from £1.40! new only from £7.27! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	The joke more books like this by Milan Kundera This is the first novel by the author of "Immortality", which won "The Independent" Award for Foreign Fiction in 1991. Milan Kundera is also the author of "The Book of Laughter and Fogetting". see all copies from £1.40! new only from £7.27! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Identity more books like this by Milan Kundera A novel by the author of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". A moment of confusion sets in motion a complex chain of events which crosses and recrosses the divide between fantasy and reality. see all copies from £1.40! new only from £5.60! \| first editions
5	The art of the novel more books like this by Milan Kundera A work of literary criticism in which Kundera argues that the European novel is "born out of the laughter of God". The author's previous novels include "The Joke", "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" and "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". see all copies from £2.10! new only from £7.27! \| first editions
6	Ignorance more books like this by Milan Kundera In 1969, Irina exiled herself from her native Prague, living in Paris for over 20 years. Josef's life has been similar: he emigrated to Denmark. Now, older and widowed, both return to the city where, long ago, they were lovers, and attempt to recapture what originally brought them together. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. see all copies from £2.06! new only from £2.17! \| first editions
7	Laughable loves more books like this by Milan Kundera This collection contains stories about the sport of love - Don Juanism, ageing, male and female power and seductions undertaken for all kinds of intriguing motives. Milan Kundera is author of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting". see all copies from £1.40! new only from £7.27! \| first editions
8	Slowness more books like this by Milan Kundera Readers are taken through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated by more than 200 years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the ridiculous. They provide merely a narrative framework for Kundera's novel, within which is condensed existential analysis. see all copies from £3.09! new only from £6.04! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Twentieth Anniversary Edition more books like this by Milan Kundera When "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" was first published in English, it was hailed as "a work of the boldest mastery, originality, and richness" by critic Elizabeth Hardwick and named one of the best books of 1984 by the "New York Times Book Review," It went on to win the "Los Angeles Times" Book Prize for Fiction and quickly became an ... see all copies from £13.07! new only from £14.58!
10	The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts more books like this by Milan Kundera, Linda Asher (Translator) In this entertaining and stimulating essay, Kundera deftly sketches out his personal view of the history and value of the novel in Western civilization. see all copies from £6.62! new only from £7.41!
11 view cover	Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts more books like this by Milan Kundera In this essay, Milan Kundera proves himself a brilliant defender of the moral rights of the artist and the respect due a work of art and its creator's wishes. see all copies from £5.60! new only from £9.71! \| first editions
12 view cover	Life is elsewhere more books like this by Milan Kundera The author intially intended to call this noel," The Lyrical Age," The lyrical age, according to Kundera, is youth, and this novel, above all, is an epic of adolescence; an ironic epic that tenderly erodes scarosanct values: childhood, motherhood, revolution, and even poetry. Jaromil is in fact a poet. His mother made hima poet and accompanies him ... see all copies from £1.40! new only from £7.27! \| first editions
13	The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: Revised Edition more books like this by Milan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim (Translator), Philip Roth (Designer) Tamina and her husband flee Czechoslovakia when the communists take power--and then he dies. Exiled in Switzerland, Tamina directs all her efforts toward recovering her dead husband's love letters, to keep her company in a strange land. Kundera uses this novel as a vehicle for his own thoughts on exile, totalitarianism, and politics, but also sex, ... see all copies from £5.43! new only from £7.63! \| first editions
14 view cover	Slowness: A Novel more books like this by Milan Kundera, Linda Asher (Translator) From one of the most distinguished writers of modern times comes a libertine fantasy which is also a profound meditation on contemporary life. Ruminating on how the pleasures of slowness have disappeared in today's fast-paced, future-shocked world, Kundera explores the secret bond between slowness and memory and the connection between our era's ... see all copies from £5.60! new only from £7.71! \| first editions
15 view cover	La Insoportable Levedad del Ser more books like this by Milan Kundera Esta es una extraordinaria historia de amor, o sea de celos de sexo, de traiciones, de muerte y tambien de las debilidades y paradojas de la vida cotidiana de dos parejas cuyos destinos se entrelazan irremediablemente. Guiado por la asombrosa capacidad de Milan Kundera de contar con cristalina claridad, el lector penetra fascinado en la trama ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £11.65!
16 view cover	Farewell waltz more books like this by Milan Kundera Klima, a celebrated jazz trumpeter, receives a phone call announcing that a young nurse with whom he spent a brief night at a fertility spa is pregnant. She has decided he is the father and so begins a comedy which, during five madcap days, unfolds with ever-increasing speed. see all copies from £1.40! new only from £7.80! \| first editions
17 view cover	Jacques and His Master: An Homage to Diderot in Three Acts more books like this by Milan Kundera, Denis Diderot (Photographer), Michael Henry Heim (Photographer) Kundera's play--which he calls a "variation" on Diderot's novel JACQUES LE FATALISTE (1796)--is about a lusty young serving man who travels across France with his master. The two indulge in various sexual adventures, but mostly they tell scandalous stories and engage in witty conversations about love, sex, poetry, and fate. JACQUES AND HIS MASTER ... see all copies from £5.60! new only from £7.19!
18 view cover	La Inmortalidad by Milan Kundera A partir del gesto encantador de una mujer de cierta edad, el escritor crea el personaje de Agnes, alrededor de la cual aparecern su hermana Laura, su marido Pan, y todo nuestro mundo contemporneo en el que se rinde culto a la tecnologa y la imagen. Pero y si el hombre no fuera sino su imagen?, pregunta otro personaje, Rubens, quien comprueba ... see all copies from £9.12! new only from £9.12!
19	Laughable Loves: Revised Edition more books like this by Milan Kundera, Suzanne Rappaport (Translator) These stories by Milan Kundera, set in Prague in the 1960s, are mostly about love and desire. They are often erotic, usually from the male point of view, and always surprising. Stories include "The Hitchhiking Game," "Dr. Havel After 20 Years," and "Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead." see all copies from £5.60! new only from £7.71!
20	The Joke: Revised Edition more books like this by Milan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim (Translator) Kundera's politically-grounded novel of love and revenge has been re-translated and published for the first time in a version that satisfies the author. Kundera gives his thoughts on the translation process in a frank Author's Note. see all copies from £5.60! new only from £14.68!
21 view cover	The farewell party more books like this by Milan Kundera Kundera's novel was banned in Czechoslovakia but acclaimed in France and the United States. The story takes a comic but chilling look at the peaceful, self-contained world of a fertility spa, which becomes the setting for a compelling psychological drama when famous jazz trumpeter Klima receives a telephone call telling him that health-resort ... see all copies from £2.05! first editions
22 view cover	Bad Company more books like this by Rachel Cusk, Milan Kundera, Arthur Miller Published in the U.S. since 1979, Granta is a handsomely illustrated paperback featuring outstanding articles. "Granta's contributors constitute an impossibly distinguished list." -- The Washington Post see all copies from £2.18! new only from £5.60!
23	The Farewell Party: Revised Edition more books like this by Milan Kundera, Peter Kussi (Translator) A farcical tale set in a Central European spa town where eight characters' lives unravel: a pretty nurse and her repairman boyfriend, a gynecologist, a rich American man, a celebrated musician and his jealous wife, and a former political prisoner, and his female companion. Kundera examines serious topics--sex, murder, and motherhood--in an eerily ... see all copies from £5.60! new only from £14.65!
24 view cover	El Libro de Los Amores Ridiculos more books like this by Milan Kundera Quien sabe si por haber sido escritas en el periodo (entre 1959 y 1968) mas feliz de la vida de Milan Kundera, segun sus propias palabras, son estas narraciones las mas alegres, las mas seriamente desvergonzadas y las mas reflexivamente divertidas de su obra. La farandula de personajes hedonistas que desfilan aqui ante nosotros en busca de los ... see all copies from £9.81! new only from £9.81!
25 view cover	La Ignorancia by Milan Kundera Una mujer y un hombre se encuentran por casualidad durante su viaje de regreso al pais natal de l que emigraron hace veinte anos. Podran reemprender una extrana historia de amor, apenas iniciada entonces en su tierra? El caso es que, tras tan larga ausencia, sus recuerdos no se parecen. Porque nuestra memoria, la pobre, que puede hacer? Solo es ... see all copies from £7.63! new only from £15.22!

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