czech writer Milan Kunderaauthor of the novel “The unbearable lightness of being”, has passed away this Wednesday with 94 years old, as reported by the Czech public television channel.
Also a prose writer, playwright and poet, who had been writing in French since the 1980s, he achieved worldwide fame in the second half of the 20th century with works such as “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” and “The Feast of Insignificance”. But his first novel was ‘The Joke’, also one of the most famous. It came out in 1967 and was made into a movie the following year, says the aforementioned source.
Kundera won praise for his style depicting themes and characters that floated between the mundane reality of everyday life and the lofty world of ideas. He was born in the Czech city of Brno but emigrated to France in 1975 after being ostracized for criticizing the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
There he worked as a professor of comparative literature at the University of Rennes and at the School of Higher Studies in Paris. In 1979, the then communist regime withdrew his Czechoslovak nationality, although two years later the then French president, François MitterrandHe was granted French nationality.
Kundera’s first success was “The Book of Ridiculous Love” in 1969. His name has sounded loud among the favorites for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Source: Lasexta
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