Kundera

[koon-der-uh, koon-de-rah]

noun

1. Milan, 1929–2023, Czech-French novelist, best known for The Incredible Lightness of Being (1984).

Kundera

/ ˈkʌndərə /

noun

1. Milan. born 1929, Czech novelist living in France. His novels include The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), and Ignorance (2002)

Example Sentences

During the course of roughly a decade, Roth curated Penguin’s “Writers From the Other Europe,” smuggling masters from behind the Iron Curtain into American sight: Tadeusz Borowski, Danilo Kiš, Milan Kundera and, crucially, Bruno Schulz.

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Milan Kundera, the “Unbearable Lightness of Being’ author who died Tuesday at 94, didn’t just liberate minds from tyranny.

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To borrow and turn around the words of the novelist, Milan Kundera, I felt a wonderful "lightness of being".

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The Czech novelist Milan Kundera, who went into exile in France after satirizing his country’s Communist regime, told Philip Roth: “I could always recognize a person who was not a Stalinist, a person whom I needn’t fear, by the way he smiled. A sense of humor was a trustworthy sign of recognition. Ever since, I have been terrified by a world that is losing its sense of humor.”

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Hodgson's playing career was effectively a non-league affair but the inquiring mind of a man who enjoyed reading the works of Milan Kundera, John Updike and Philip Roth was always destined for coaching and management.

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