Czech novelist Milan Kundera dies at the age of 94

2023-07-12 12:09:28Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA DRITAN HILA
Czech novelist Milan Kundera dies at the age of 94
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Milan Kundera, the author of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", whose darkly provocative novels delved into the enigma of the human condition, has passed away at the age of 94.

"Unfortunately, I can confirm that Mr. "Milan Kundera passed away yesterday (Tuesday) after a prolonged illness," a spokeswoman told AFP.

Through his characteristic satire and poetic prose, Milan Kundera expressed all that was compelling and absurd about life, drawing on his experiences of being stripped of his Czech nationality due to dissent.

Life, he said in his critical work The Art of the Novel (1986), "is a trap we have always known: we are born without asking to be, locked in a body we never chose and destined to die .”

Kundera was born on April 1, 1929, in the city of Brno, in what was then Czechoslovakia. His father was a famous pianist. He studied in Prague, where he joined the Communist Party, translated the French poet Apollinaire, and wrote his own poetry.

Kundera's first novel The Joke, a darkly humorous work about the one-party state published in 1967, led to his writing being banned in Czechoslovakia, while also making him famous in his homeland.


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