Milan Kundera
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89 Words Followed by Prague, a Disappearing Poem
$25.99 Add to cartTwo newly translated works from one of the greatest literary writers and thinkers of the modern age, available together in English for the first time.
Translating a work from its original language can
- Author: Kundera, Milan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0063436434
- Language: English
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The Joke
$18.99 Add to cart“A thoughtful, intricate, ambivalent novel with the reach of greatness in it.” –John Updike
“It is impossible to do justice here to the subtleties, comedy, and wisdom of this very beautiful novel. Mil
- Author: Kundera, Milan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 01 1994
- ISBN10: 006099505X
- Language: English
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
$17.99 Read moreIn this story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities, Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of 20th century ‘Being’. The novel encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy, and embraces, i… [more below]
- Author: Kundera, Milan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: June 13 2016
- ISBN10: 0062179381
- Language: English
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Jacques and His Master
$16.99 Add to cartA deliciously witty and entertaining “variation” on Diderot’s novel Jacques le Fatalist, written for Milan Kundera’s “private pleasure” in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia.
When
- Author: Kundera, Milan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0062219073
- Language: English
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Laughable Loves
$18.99 Add to cart“An intellectual heavyweight and a pure literary virtuoso, Milan Kundera takes some of Freud’s most cherished complexes and irreverently whirls them about in acts of legerdemain that capture our darke
- Author: Kundera, Milan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 25 1999
- ISBN10: 0060997036
- Language: English
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Identity
$17.99 Add to cart“Kundera, master of the twosome, finds erotic and existential threads everywhere in daily behavior. Like his previous books, Identity is a cluster of jeweled observations. . . . But Identity has a spe
- Author: Kundera, Milan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 21 1999
- ISBN10: 0060930314
- Language: English
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Life Is Elsewhere
$17.99 Add to cart“I will say no more about this lacerating book except to urge it upon all who care about literature in our difficult era.” — Boston Globe
“A sly and merciless lampoon of revolutionary romanticism. . .
- Author: Kundera, Milan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 25 2000
- ISBN10: 0060997028
- Language: English
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Farewell Waltz
$17.99 Add to cart“After Farewell Waltz there cannot be any doubt. Kundera is a master of contemporary literature. This novel is both an an example of virtuosity and a descent into the human soul.” —L’Unite
Set in an o
- Author: Kundera, Milan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 21 1998
- ISBN10: 0060997001
- Language: English
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Slowness
$16.99 Add to cart“Irresistible. . . . Slowness is an ode to sensuous leisure, to the enjoyment of pleasure rather than just the search for it.” — Mirabella
Milan Kundera’s lightest novel, a divertimento, an opera buff
- Author: Kundera, Milan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 11 1997
- ISBN10: 0060928417
- Language: English
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The Festival of Insignificance
$13.99 Add to cart“Slender but weighty. . . . What is moving about this novel is its embrace of what has always driven Kundera, the delicate state of living between being and nothingness.”– Boston Globe
From the intern
- Author: Kundera, Milan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0062356909
- Language: English
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Ignorance
$17.99 Add to cart“Kundera once more delivers a seductive, intelligent entertainment … [with] elegance and grace.” — Washington Post Book World
“Nothing short of masterful.” — Newsweek
A brilliant novel set in contem
- Author: Kundera, Milan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 30 2003
- ISBN10: 0060002107
- Language: English
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A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe
$24.99 Add to cart“We should welcome the context Kundera gives for the struggles between Russia and Europe, and the plight of those caught between them. His defense of small languages, small cultures, and small nations
- Author: Kundera, Milan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0063272954
- Language: English
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La Insoportable Levedad del Ser / The Unbearable Lightness of Being
$15.95 Add to cartUna brillante disección del amor que se ha convertido en uno de los grandes hitos de la literatura contemporánea.
Más de 1.000.000 de ejemplares vendidos. Un clásico de la novela contemporánea.
La insop
- Author: Kundera, Milan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 30, 2022
- ISBN10: 6070788885
- Language: Spanish
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Twentieth Anniversary Edition
$29.99 Add to cartA special 20th anniversary hardcover edition of this classic work of world literature
When The Unbearable Lightness of Being was first published in English, it was hailed as “a work of the boldest mast
- Author: Kundera, Milan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 4, 2004
- ISBN10: 0060597186
- Language: English
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Immortality
$18.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
“Inspired. . . . Kundera’s most brilliantly imagined novel. . . . A book that entrances, beguiles and charms us from first page to last.” — Cleveland Plain Dealer
Milan Kunder
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Kundera, Milan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 20, 1999
- ISBN10: 0060932384
- Language: English
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
$18.99 Add to cart“An absolutely dazzling entertainment. . . . Arousing on every level–political, erotic, intellectual, and above all, humorous.” —Newsweek
“The Book of Laughter and Forgetting calls itself a novel, al
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Kundera, Milan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: 7-Apr-99
- ISBN10: 0060932147
- Language: English
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
$21.99 Add to cartInternational Bestseller – Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction
“Far more than a conventional novel. It is a meditation on life, on the erotic, on the nature of men and women and love
- Series: Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions
- Author: Kundera, Milan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 27 2009
- ISBN10: 61148520
- Language: English
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
$18.99 Add to cartInternational Bestseller – Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction
“Far more than a conventional novel. It is a meditation on life, on the erotic, on the nature of men and women and love
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Kundera, Milan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 05, 2005
- ISBN10: 0060932139
- Language: English
