Kundera

American  

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

noun

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

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Kundera British  

/ 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)

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Example Sentences

In Milan Kundera’s 1983 essay “The Tragedy of Central Europe,” Mr. Jukic writes, Eastern Europe represented “everything terrible about the communist present,” and the utopia of Central Europe stood for “the supposedly more European past and a promised European future.”

From The Wall Street Journal

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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From Los Angeles Times

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

From BBC

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.”

From New York Times