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Kundera

[ koon-der-uh; Czech koon-de-rah ]
/ kʊnˈdɛr ə; Czech ˈkʊn dɛ rɑ /

noun

Milan, born 1929, Czech-born novelist resident in France.

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Example sentences from the Web for Kundera

  • Kundera sees fiction as a realm of many partial truths, its only certainty “the wisdom of uncertainty.”

    The Birth of the Novel|Nick Romeo|November 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST

  • Kundera was reacting against the efforts of 20th-century totalitarian regimes to refashion novelists as propagandists.

    The Birth of the Novel|Nick Romeo|November 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST

British Dictionary definitions for Kundera

Kundera
/ (ˈkʌndərə) /

noun

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)
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