Can anyone tell me about Milan Kundera and his writings?

You can buy another copy of "Asking Existence". It's full of book reviews of Kundera's work.

In particular, the article in the book about the review of "The Unbearable Lightness of Life", that is, the article of the same name, "Asking Existence", is quite wonderful. You will feel yourself in the process of solemnly dissecting your life.

In the early 50s, Milan Kundera appeared on the literary scene as a poet, publishing collections of poems such as "Soliloquy". In 1967, the first novel, The Joke, was published in the Czech Republic with great success. After the Soviet invasion of the Czech Republic, he moved to France in 1975, and then composed the long works "Laughing Forgetfulness", "Living Elsewhere", "Farewell Waltz", "The Unbearable Lightness of Life", "Immortal", the play "Jacques and His Master", and the short story "Funny Love".

He has also published three anthologies on the art of **, including "The Art of **" and "The Betrayed Testament".

Milan Kundera's works include "Laughing Forgotten" and "Joke".

1, "Laughing and Forgetting".

Laughing and Forgetting is a long story, which contains various forms of literary genres, such as historical narratives, fables, essays, philosophical contemplations, etc., which are connected with the storyline, showing the author's concern for the universal plight of human existence, and also showing his unique political and philosophical thinking.

2, "Joke".

The work tells the story of Ludvik, a young intellectual, who was framed by his friend Zemanek and sent to a hard labor camp because he made a joke with his girlfriend. After his return, he tried to seduce his wife Helena in revenge for Zemanek. After the success of the plan, it was discovered that:

Zemanek wanted to abandon his wife for a long time, and his revenge became a useless "joke".

Features of Milan Kundera's work:

It pays great attention to the choice of story perspective and time perspective. Traditional narratives are generally no more than first- and third-person narration, and even if there is occasional second-person narration, it is only a variation of the first two types of narration. Milan Kundera is no different from a person in the narrator's choice to go up the mountain and destroy it.

However, when it comes to telling a story in the first or third person, it creates a very special effect.

The occurrence of the story is synchronized with the author's writing and the reader's reading, and the two constitute a synchronic state, so that the work acquires an unprecedented sense of realism, a sense of "presence" in the style of "live broadcast". He often brings the stories of different eras and different types of characters into his own **, and tells two or even several stories at the same time.

1. Milan Kundera (Milan Kundera), ** family, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, has lived in France since 1975. The novels "Joke Celebration", "Life Elsewhere", "Farewell Waltz", "Laughter and Forgetfulness", "The Unbearable Light Reputation of Life" and "Immortality", as well as the short story collection "Funny Love" are written in the author's native Czech. His novels "Slow", "Identity" and "Ignorance", the essay collections "The Art of **", "The Betrayed Testament", "The Potato Curtain" and his new work "Encounter" are written in French.

Jacques and His Master is the author's masterpiece of drama.

On 28 November, Milan Kundera regained his citizenship of the Czech Republic**. On September 20, 2020, he won the Kafka Prize for Literature.