Celebrated novelist Milan Kundera, greatest recognized for his masterpiece “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” has died on the age of 94. The Moravian Library (MZK), which preserves Kundera’s private assortment, confirmed that he handed away in his Paris residence on Tuesday after battling a chronic sickness.
Kundera gained approval for his distinctive portrayal of characters and themes that traversed the realm of mundane existence and the profound world of concepts. While he hardly ever granted interviews, believing that writers ought to categorical themselves via their literary works, his relationship together with his dwelling nation remained advanced after his departure.
In 1967, Kundera revealed his debut novel, “The Joke,” which harshly depicted the Czechoslovak Communist regime and the political occasion of which he was nonetheless a member. Eventually disillusioned with the potential of reform throughout the occasion, he relocated to France in 1975, resulting in his Czechoslovak citizenship being revoked 4 years later.
In a 1976 interview with French each day Le Monde, Kundera emphasised that labeling his works as purely political would oversimplify and obscure their true significance, though his books typically carried political undertones. One of his notable works, “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting” (1979), portrayed the manipulation of historical past and the creation of an alternate previous by totalitarian regimes via a sequence of interconnected tales.
“The Unbearable Lightness of Being” (1984), Kundera’s most famed novel, revolved across the occasions of the Prague Spring and its aftermath. The guide was later tailored into a movie in 1988, directed by Philip Kaufman and that includes Daniel Day-Lewis, which garnered two Academy Award nominations.
In 2019, Kundera was granted Czech Republic citizenship. Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala remarked, “Milan Kundera was a writer who touched the lives of entire generations of readers worldwide, achieving global recognition. He leaves behind a remarkable literary legacy, encompassing both fiction and significant essays.”
Born within the Czech metropolis of Brno, Kundera selected to to migrate to France in 1975 following his ostracization for criticizing the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia through the Prague Spring reform motion in 1968.
Reporting by Jan Lopatka and Robert Muller in Prague and Elizabeth Pineau in Paris; Writing by Michael Kahn and Jason Hovet; Editing by Toby Chopra and Editing by Kevin Liffey.
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