Milan Kundera - Böcker

Tomas, Tereza och Sabina lever i exil i Schweiz efter den ryska ockupationen av Tjeckoslovakien. Tereza älskar Tomas djupt men svartsjukt. Han är starkt bunden till henne men kan inte avhålla sig från en rad erotiska eskapader. En av hans älskarin...

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In this novel - a story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities - Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of twentieth-century 'Being' In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which ev...

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När det kalla kriget var som allra kyligast påminde Milan Kundera oss om att Prag och Budapest var lika europeiska som Paris och Wien. Kunderas essä blev starten på en återupptäckt av Europa bortom järnridån.   Om författaren Milan Kundera fö...

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'A cult figure.' Guardian 'A dark and brilliant achievement.' Ian McEwan 'Shamelessly clever ... Exhilaratingly subversive and funny.' Independent 'A modern classic ... As relevant now as when it was first published. ' John Banville A young woman ...

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Milan Kunderas nya essäsamling är ett passionerat försvar av konsten, i en tid som, menar han, inte längre särskilt värdesätter konst eller skönhet. Kundera förenar känsla och tanke, idéer och historia på samma bländande sätt som i sina romaner nä...

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This breathtaking, reverberating survey of human nature finds Kundera still attempting to work out the meaning of life without losing his acute sense of humour. It is one of those great unclassifiable masterpieces that appear once every twenty yea...

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A short collection of brilliant early essays that offers a fascinating context for the Milan Kundera's subsequent career and holds a mirror to much recent European history. It is also remarkably prescient with regard to Russia's current aggression...

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A heady, existential tale of seduction and romance by the author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being. 'An artist, clearly one of the best to be found anywhere.' Salman Rushdie Slowness was Kundera's first novel writt...

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The classic of literary criticism from one of the world's greatest novelists. In seven independent, but closely related chapters, Milan Kundera presents his personal conception of the European novel, which he describes as 'an art born of...

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All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now, a quarter century after "The Joke" was first published and several years after the collapse of the Soviet-impo...

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The bestselling masterpiece tale of love and exile in Prague by the author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being. 'An artist, clearly one of the best to be found anywhere.' Salman Rushdie A man and a woman meet by chance wh...

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'A masterpiece' (Salman Rushdie) by the author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being. '[It] calls itself a novel, although it is part fairy tale, part literary criticism, part political tract, part musicology, and part...

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A philosophical masterpiece by the author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being. In a narrative as intense as it is brief, a moment of confusion sets in motion a complex chain of events which forces the reader to cross and recross th...

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The last novel by the international superstar and author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being. 'Kundera is the saddest, funniest, and most lovable of authors.' Times Casting light on the most serious of problems and at the same time sayi...

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'A cult figure.' Guardian'A dark and brilliant achievement.' Ian McEwan'Shamelessly clever ... Exhilaratingly subversive and funny.' Independent'A modern classic ... As relevant now as when it was first published...

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A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned 20 years earlier when they chose to become exiles. Will they manage to pick up the thread of their strange love story, interrupted almost as soon as it be...

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When "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" was first published in English, it was hailed as "a work of the boldest mastery, originality, and richness" by critic Elizabeth Hardwick and named one of the best books of 1984 by the &q...

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In this entertaining and stimulating essay, Kundera deftly sketches out his personal view of the history and value of the novel in Western civilization.

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Milan Kundera has established himself as one of the great novelists of our time with such books as The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Immortality and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. Here Kundera proves himself a brilliant defender of the mora...

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From one of the most distinguished writers of modern times comes a libertine fantasy which is also a profound meditation on contemporary life. Ruminating on how the pleasures of slowness have disappeared in today's fast-paced, future-shocked world...

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An erotic and disturbing story about love and the psyche. After a brief holiday with her younger lover, Chantal begins to receive letters at her Paris home from a mysterious admirer. Soon, the missives, which she hides from her lover, begin to hav...

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A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover--these are the two couples whose story are told in this masterful classic.

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The only authorized translation of the bestselling masterpiece by one of the greatest authors of our time, "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" is part fairy tale, part literary criticism, part political tract, part musicology, and part...

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Published simultaneously with "Identity", his new novel, "Farewell Waltz" is a masterful new translation of Milan Kundera's most brilliantly plotted and sheerly entertaining novel--a dark farce of sex, murder, and motherhood.

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Milan Kundera is a master of graceful illusion and illuminating surprise. In one of these stories a young man and his girlfriend pretend that she is a stranger he picked up on the road -- only to become strangers to each other in reality as their ...

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A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover--these are the two couples whose stories are told in this masterful classic.

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Milan Kundera's brilliant new collection of essays is a passionate defense of art in an era that, he argues, no longer values art or beauty. With the same dazzling mix of emotion and ideas that characterizes his bestselling novels, the internation...

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All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now, a quarter century after The Joke was first published and several years after the collapse of the Soviet-imposed Czechosl...

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When The Unbearable Lightness of Being was first published in English, it was hailed as "e;a work of the boldest mastery, originality, and richness"e; by critic Elizabeth Hardwick and named one of the best books of 1984 by the New York Tim...

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"e;An absolutely dazzling entertainment. . . . Arousing on every level-political, erotic, intellectual, and above all, humorous."e; -Newsweek"e;The Book of Laughter and Forgetting calls itself a novel, although it is part fairy tale, p...

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