Kundera’s first novel “The Joke,” a work of dark humor about the one-party state published in 1967, led to a ban on his writing in Czechoslovakia while also making him famous in his homeland.
Milan Rakić (18 September 1876 – 30 June 1938) (Милан Ракић) was a Serbian poet-diplomat. He focused on dodecasyllable and hendecasyllable verse, which allowed him to achieve beautiful rhythm and rhyme in his poems. He was quite a perfectionist and therefore only published two collections of poems (1903, 1912). On Tuesday, Kundera died in Paris following a period of “prolonged illness”, a spokesperson for the Milan Kundera Library confirmed. He was 94 years old. He was best known for novels like The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) and The Joke, and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1978), all of which were written originally in Czech. Read

Milan Kundera, Aaron Asher. Kundera initially intended to call this novel The Lyrical Age. The lyrical age, according to Kundera, is youth, and this novel, above all, is an epic of adolescence; an ironic epic that tenderly erodes sacrosanct values: childhood, motherhood, revolution, and even poetry. Jaromil is in fact a poet.

From the moment he started writing in French in 1975, Kundera distanced himself from Czechoslovakia. And while most Czech exile writers returned — at least to visit when Communism ended in 1989 — Kundera waited until 1996 to pay his visit. Since then he has always visited the country incognito, and is known for refusing media interviews.
Writing in the novella Slowness about the most famous book of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Kundera observes: “The epistolary form of Les Liaisons dangereuses is not merely a technical procedure

Kundera’s first novel The Joke, a work of dark humour about the one-party state published in 1967, led to a ban on his writing in Czechoslovakia while also making him famous in his homeland.

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