![]() ![]() He wrote many novels, this being perhaps the most famous, but also The Joke and The Book Of Laughter and Forgetting. Kundera was a Czech but lived most of his life in exile in France as his country was occupied by Soviet forces. ![]() He has won many other awards including most recently the Franz Kafka prize. ![]() Many believe Kundera, now 90, is an ideal candidate for Nobel prize for this book. Well, it is all of the above, and that is what makes this a modern classic. Is it fiction – a story of a young woman in love with an incorrigible womanizer? Is it history – documenting Czech life during the soviet occupation? Is it a political treatise – showing how the high ideals of communism denigrated into hypocrisy? Or is it philosophy – deeply exploring relationships and the ideal way to live? ![]()
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