Milan Kundera

Person · Open Library

Born

1929-04-01

Died

2023-07-11

Works

195

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Film & TV

Writing · Brno, Czechoslovakia

Milan Kundera (1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a writer of Czech origin who lived in exile in France since 1975, where he became a naturalized citizen in 1981. He is best known as the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, and The Joke. Kundera has written in both Czech and French. He revises the French translations of all his books; these therefore are…

Known for

• Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Weight of History — Self (archive footage)2023
• Milan Kundera: From the Joke to Insignificance — Self - Writer (voice) (archive footage)2021
• Apostrophes — Self1975

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

France

Active from

1929

Active to

2023

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

557

Total plays

8,704

Milan Kundera (Czech pronunciation: [ˈmɪlan ˈkundɛra]; born 1 April 1929) is the Czech Republic's most recognized living writer. Of Czech origin, he has lived in exile in France since 1975, having become a naturalised citizen in 1981. Kundera's best-known work is The Unbearable Lightness of Being. His books were banned by the Communist regimes of Czechoslovakia until the downfall of the regime in the Velvet Revolution of 1989. He lives virtually incognito and rarely speaks to the media. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Milan+Kundera">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. STRING v11: protein–protein association networks with increased coverage, supporting functional discovery in genome-wide experimental datasets

   · 2018 · cited 15,630x

2. Free radicals and antioxidants in normal physiological functions and human disease

   · 2007 · cited 11,007x

3. STRING v10: protein–protein interaction networks, integrated over the tree of life

   · 2014 · cited 8,951x

4. 3D Slicer as an image computing platform for the Quantitative Imaging Network

   · 2012 · cited 8,245x

5. 2017 ESC Guidelines for the management of acute myocardial infarction in patients presenting with ST-segment elevation

   · 2017 · cited 7,918x

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Quotes

• “Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away by his unequaled imagination, they look for allegories — and come up with nothing but clichés: life is absurd (or it is not absurd), God is beyond reach (or within reach), etc. You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.”
• “A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.”
• “The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.”
• “Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human habit of judging instantly, ceaselessly, and everyone; of judging before, and in the absence of, understanding. From the view­point of the novel’s wisdom, that fervid readiness to judge is the most detestable stupidity, the most pernicious evil.”
• “Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace.”
• “Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.”

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