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He sees himself as a french writer and insists his work should be studied as french literature and. This detailed literature summary also contains topics for discussion and a free. Milan kundera, born april 1, 1929, brno, czechoslovakia now in czech republic, czech novelist, shortstory writer, playwright, essayist, and poet whose works combine erotic comedy with political criticism and philosophical speculation the son of a noted concert pianist and musicologist, ludvik kundera, the young kundera studied music but gradually turned to writing, and he began teaching. Pdf parody of a life which is elsewhere researchgate. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed and bestselling novels the joke, life is elsewhere, the farewell waltz, the book of laughter and forgetting, the unbearable lightness of being, immortality, and the shortstory collection laughable loves all originally in czech. Kunderas czech citizenship was revoked in 1979 and was not restored until 2019.
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