مؤلف: Milan Kundera

Die Königs Erläuterung zu Milan Kundera: Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins ist eine verlässliche und bewährte Textanalyse und Interpretationshilfe für Schüler und weiterführende Informationsqu …

Jacques and His Master is a deliciously witty and entertaining 'variation' on Diderot's novel Jacques le fataliste, written for Milan Kundera's 'private pleasure' in the …

The last novel by the international superstar and author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being. 'Kundera is the saddest, funniest, and most lovable of authors.' Times An artist, clearly one …

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 …

The debut by author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being, of which Salman Rushdie said: 'It is impossible to do justice here to the subtleties, comedy and wisdom of this very beau …

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-confe …

A dazzling tragicomic tale from the author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being. 'Anyone reading Kundera's books is unlikely to forget them. They have an essential energy, a …

'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 …

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 Rushd …

A philosophical masterpiece 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 passionate and provocative defence of art from the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Are we living in an era that no longer values art or beauty? This is Kundera's passionate defenc …

'A cult figure.' Guardian'A dark and brilliant achievement.' Ian Mc Ewan'Shamelessly clever … Exhilaratingly subversive and funny.' Independent'A modern classic . …

The New York Times bestseller by the author of legendary cult classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being. 'Like all great writers, Kundera leaves indelible marks on his readers' imaginations …

A landmark essay about the value of the novel from the superstar author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being. A magic curtain, woven of legends, hung before the world . . . Cervantes sent Don Quixote …

Befriend a budding poet and his adoring mother in this seductive early novel – winner of the Prix Medicis – by the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being. 'An artist, clearly one of the gre …

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.' Sa …

A classic of literary criticism from one of the world's greatest novelists and author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being. 'A great novelist who is also a great critic.' Guardian Cerv …

A provocative and rousing insight into European politics from one of the world's greatest writers. 'One of his most powerful works.' Financial Times'A pan-European intellectual fo …

A short collection of brilliant early essays that offers a fascinating context for the Milan Kunderas subsequent career and holds a mirror to much recent European history.It is also remarkably presci …

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 …

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 Dealer Mila …

"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 beauti …

"An absolutely dazzling entertainment. . . . Arousing on every levelpolitical, erotic, intellectual, and above all, humorous." Newsweek"The Book of Laughter and Forgetting calls itself …

"Irresistible. . . . Slowness is an ode to sensuous leisure, to the enjoyment of pleasure rather than just the search for it." Mirabella Milan Kundera’s lightest novel, a divertimento, an o …

"Kundera, master of the twosome, finds erotic and existential threads everywhere in daily behavior. Like his previous books, Identity is a cluster of jeweled observations. . . . But Identity has …

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

"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 …

"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’Unite S …

"I will say no more about this lacerating book except to urge it upon all who care about literature in our difficult era." Boston Globe"A sly and merciless lampoon of revolutionary rom …

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 h …

"A defense of fiction and a lesson in the art of reading." New York Times Book Review"Testaments Betrayedis to be savored paragraph by paragraph. . . . It must be purchased, read, pond …

Slender but weighty, thoroughly cerebral. . . . It comes as a welcome corrective to so much American-style realist fiction, which in heavy doses can blur into a kind of sameness. . . what is moving a …

Milan Kunderas brilliant new collection of essays is a passionate defense of art in an era that, he argues, no longer values art or beauty. With the same dazzling mix of emotion and ideas that charac …

A magic curtain, woven of legends, hung before the world. Cervantes sent Don Quixote journeying and tore through the curtain. The world opened before the knight-errant in all the comical nakedness of …

Jacques and His Master is a deliciously witty and entertaining variation on Diderots novel Jacques le Fatalist, written for Milan Kunderas private pleasure in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of …

Angesichts von Krieg und politischen Zerwürfnissen in Europa sind Milan Kunderas Analysen zur Rolle Mitteleuropas im Spannungsfeld zwischen Zugehörigkeit zum Westen und der Bedrohung durch Russland b …

Von ihrer Ehe ist Jaromils Mutter enttäuscht. Ihr Mann hat für eine Abtreibung plädiert. Als er seine jüdische Geliebte im Ghetto von Theresienstadt besucht, wird er schließlich hingerichtet. Fortan …

Ein systemkritischer Kunstdozent wird von einem Mann belästigt, der erst von ihm verlangt, seine Arbeit zu rezensieren, und dann seiner Frau nachstellt. Martin ist glücklich verheiratet und jagt denn …

Den Quellen eines böhmischen Badestädtchens werden Wunderwirkungen nachgesagt, wie etwa Frauen Fruchtbarkeit zu schenken. Acht Personen begegnen sich hier: die Krankenschwester Rosa, der berühmte Tro …

»Optimismus ist das Opium der Menschheit! Es lebe Trotzki!« Der Text auf dieser Postkarte, eigentlich als Scherz gemeint, wird dem Studenten und kommunistischen Aktivisten Ludvik zum Verhängnis. Auf …

Denis Diderots Jacques der Fatalist und sein Herr aus dem 18. Jahrhundert zählte zu Milan Kunderas Lieblingsromanen. Um ihn zu würdigen, schuf er seine eigene Bühnen­fassung: drei Akte über den Diene …

Der Prager Dissident Mirek versucht, seine alten Briefe in die Finger zu kriegen: kom­promittierende Liebesbriefe, die er vor Jahren an die hässliche Kommunistin Zdena schrieb. Er will sie vernichten …

Jeter une lumière sur les problèmes les plus sérieux et en même temps ne pas prononcer une seule phrase sérieuse, être fasciné par la réalité du monde contemporain et en même temps éviter tout réalis …

‘Qu”est-il resté des agonisants du Cambodge ? Une grande photo de la star américaine tenant dans ses bras un enfant jaune. Qu”est-il resté de Tomas ? Une inscription : Il voulait le Royaume de Dieu …

”’Tu m”as souvent dit vouloir écrire un jour un roman où aucun mot ne serait sérieux. Une Grande Bêtise Pour Ton Plaisir. J”ai peur que le moment ne soit venu. Je veux seulement te prévenir : fais …

‘Sur l”avenir, tout le monde se trompe. L”homme ne peut être sûr que du moment présent. Mais est-ce bien vrai ? Peut-il vraiment le connaître, le présent ? Est-il capable de le juger ? Bien sûr que …

‘Et je me demande : qui a rêvé ? Qui a rêvé cette histoire ? Qui l’a imaginée ? Elle ? Lui ? Tous les deux ? Chacun pour l’autre ? Et à partir de quel moment leur vie réelle s’est-elle transformée en …

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 …

Die Welt der Theorie sei nicht die seine, erklärt Milan Kundera. Seine Überlegungen basierten auf seiner eigenen Praxis des Schreibens. Und zum Glück für seine Zeitgenossen und die Nachwelt hat der A …