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Books by Milan Kundera mentioned on podcasts
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera is a philosophical novel that explores love, fate, and the heavy burdens of human existence against the backdrop of the Prague Spring.
Discussed“There's actually a line in one of my favorite novels, The Unbearable Lightness of Being. And the woman, she says, "It's much more important to dig a half buried crow out of the ground than to write a petition to the president."”
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Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera is a philosophical novel structured as a kaleidoscope of interconnected stories and essays examining memory, political oppression, history, and human folly.
Discussed“So um the Czech writer Milan Kundara was extremely important for me um the book of laughter and forgetting uh and the unbearable lightness of being and also his book the art of the novel immensely significant texts that seemed to have an incredible freedom.”
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The Joke
The Joke by Milan Kundera is a satirical novel that explores the absurdities of totalitarianism and the severe consequences of straying from political orthodoxy in communist Czechoslovakia.
Discussed“And for example, um Milan Kundera, the novelist, wrote a novel called The Joke making exactly this point um given his experience with communism.”
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Art of the Novel
Discussed“So um the Czech writer Milan Kundara was extremely important for me um the book of laughter and forgetting uh and the unbearable lightness of being and also his book the art of the novel immensely significant texts that seemed to have an incredible freedom.”
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Jacques and His Master
Discussed“According to the filings, they quote formed a deeper intellectual connection when she directed a production of the 1971 Milan Cunda play Jack and His Master in which Mcronone played the lead role and later the two began meeting regularly to collaborate on another play.”
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Slowness
Discussed“Milan Kundra wrote this short book called slowness and kind of the the nub of the book the message is that memory and speed are inversely proportionate.”
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Testaments Betrayed
Discussed“The great Czech writer Milan Candera had this beautiful phrase in a book of his from the '9s called testaments betrayed where he said the odd thing about mankind is he said we walk through life in a fog and we stumble along a path and we create the path as we stumble along it.”
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