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The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as kundera)
avg rating 4.10 — 572,169 ratings — published 1984
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as kundera)
avg rating 3.94 — 55,972 ratings — published 1979
Immortality (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as kundera)
avg rating 4.14 — 44,695 ratings — published 1990
The Joke (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as kundera)
avg rating 4.03 — 42,445 ratings — published 1967
Laughable Loves (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as kundera)
avg rating 3.79 — 41,071 ratings — published 1979
Life is Elsewhere (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as kundera)
avg rating 3.96 — 22,539 ratings — published 1973
Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as kundera)
avg rating 3.69 — 35,107 ratings — published 1997
Ignorance (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as kundera)
avg rating 3.81 — 29,224 ratings — published 2000
Slowness (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as kundera)
avg rating 3.60 — 23,767 ratings — published 1995
Farewell Waltz (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as kundera)
avg rating 3.87 — 21,154 ratings — published 1972
The Festival of Insignificance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as kundera)
avg rating 3.36 — 23,366 ratings — published 2013
The Art of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as kundera)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,635 ratings — published 1960
Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as kundera)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,161 ratings — published 1993
The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as kundera)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,028 ratings — published 2005
Encounter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as kundera)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,969 ratings — published 2009
Jacques and His Master: An Homage to Diderot in Three Acts (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as kundera)
avg rating 3.72 — 2,151 ratings — published 1971
A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as kundera)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,936 ratings — published 1983
Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as kundera)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,064 ratings — published 1963
Agnes's Final Afternoon: An Essay on the Work of Milan Kundera – A Critical Reading of Immortality, Protagonist Agnès, and the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as kundera)
avg rating 4.08 — 36 ratings — published 2003
89 Words followed by Prague, A Disappearing Poem: The Czech Writer's Personal Dictionary and Essays on Cultural Identity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as kundera)
avg rating 3.79 — 244 ratings — published 1985
Milan Kundera. "Écrire, quelle drôle d’idée !" (French Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as kundera)
avg rating 4.25 — 109 ratings — published
أصحاب المفاتيح (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as kundera)
avg rating 3.65 — 158 ratings — published 1962
W kręgu powieści Milana Kundery (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as kundera)
avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published
Milana Kundery filozoficzna koncepcja postawy lirycznej, dramatycznej i powieściopisarskiej (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as kundera)
avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published 2022
The gesture of protest against a violation of human rights (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as kundera)
avg rating 4.25 — 8 ratings — published
Castle to Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as kundera)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,555 ratings — published 1957
Terra Nostra (Latin American Literature)
by (shelved 1 time as kundera)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,417 ratings — published 1975
Jacques the Fatalist (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as kundera)
avg rating 3.79 — 10,106 ratings — published 1796
Slova, pojmy, situace (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as kundera)
avg rating 3.98 — 106 ratings — published 2014
Nechovejte se tu jako doma, příteli (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as kundera)
avg rating 4.19 — 144 ratings — published 2006
Пусть старые покойники уступят место молодым покойникам (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as kundera)
avg rating 4.50 — 8 ratings — published
Terminal Paradox: The Novels of Milan Kundera (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as kundera)
avg rating 3.60 — 15 ratings — published 1991
Bir Düşün Sonu: Milan Kundera Üzerine Bir İnceleme (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as kundera)
avg rating 4.68 — 22 ratings — published 2017
À la recherche de Milan Kundera (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as kundera)
avg rating 3.70 — 91 ratings — published 2021
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as kundera)
avg rating 3.92 — 316,432 ratings — published 1605
Kundera and Modernity (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as kundera)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 2013
Socrates and Dionysus: Philosophy and Art in Dialogue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as kundera)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2013
Philosophical Papers, Volume 2: Essays on Heidegger and Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as kundera)
avg rating 4.11 — 137 ratings — published 1991
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as kundera)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,150,807 ratings — published 1960
Translating Milan Kundera (Topics in Translation, 30)
by (shelved 1 time as kundera)
avg rating 4.14 — 7 ratings — published 2006
“The reason she refused to get down on all fours was that in that position their bodies did not touch at all and he could observe her from a distance of several feet. She hated that distance. She wanted to merge with him.”
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“In the face of the threats of a total weightlessness, an unbearable lightness of being, a universal promiscuity and a linearity of processes liable to plunge us into the void, the sudden whirlpools that we dub catastrophes are really the thing that saves us from catastrophe. Anomalies and aberrations of this kind re-create zones of gravity and density that counter dispersion. It may be hazarded that this is how our societies secrete their own peculiar version of an accursed share, much after the fashion of those tribal peoples who used to dispose of their surplus population by means of an oceanic suicide: the homeopathic suicide of a few serving to maintain the homeostatic balance of the group.
So the actual catastrophe may turn out to be a carefully modulated strategy of our species - or, more precisely, our viruses, our extreme phenomena, which are most definitively real, albeit localized, may be what allow us to preserve the energy of that virtual catastrophe which is the motor of all our processes, whether economic or political, artistic or historical.”
― The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena
So the actual catastrophe may turn out to be a carefully modulated strategy of our species - or, more precisely, our viruses, our extreme phenomena, which are most definitively real, albeit localized, may be what allow us to preserve the energy of that virtual catastrophe which is the motor of all our processes, whether economic or political, artistic or historical.”
― The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena