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Milan Kundera

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The French-Czech novelist Milan Kundera was born in the Czech Republic and has lived in France since 1975. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed and bestselling novels The Joke, Life is Elsewhere, The Farewell Waltz, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Immortality, and the short-story collection Laughable Loves -- all originally in Czech. His more recent novels , Slowness, Identity, and Ignorance, as well as his nonfiction works, The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain, and Encounter, were originally written in French.

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The Curtain

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Jacques and His Master book cover

Jacques and His Master

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The Festival of Insignificance book cover

The Festival of Insignificance

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Encounter

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Life Is Elsewhere book cover

Life Is Elsewhere

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The Art of the Novel book cover

The Art of the Novel

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Testaments Betrayed

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Laughable Loves book cover

Laughable Loves

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Ignorance book cover

Ignorance

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Farewell Waltz book cover

Farewell Waltz

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Identity book cover

Identity

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Slowness book cover

Slowness

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Immortality book cover

Immortality

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A Kidnapped West book cover

A Kidnapped West

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being book cover

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting book cover

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

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The Joke book cover

The Joke

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