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Milan Kundera – Novels & Essays

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Wed 05 May, 5.30 pm
L’Espace

In conjunction with the release of Milan Kundera’s book “Ignorance” in Vietnamese, L’Espace cordially invites you to a literary roundtable about Kundera’s life and work.

Milan Kundera is a Czech and French writer of Czech origin who has lived in exile in France since 1975, where he became a naturalized citizen in 1981. He is best known as the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, and The Joke.

Although his early poetic works are staunchly pro-communist[5], his novels escape ideological classification. Kundera has repeatedly insisted on being considered a novelist, rather than a political or dissident writer. Political commentary has all but disappeared from his novels (starting specifically after The Unbearable Lightness of Being) except in relation to broader philosophical themes. Kundera’s style of fiction, interlaced with philosophical digression, greatly inspired by the novels of Robert Musil and the philosophy of Nietzsche.

Source: Wikipedia

Please note: The discussion will be conducted in Vietnamese.

Free entry.

L’Espace-Centre Culturel Français de Hanoi
Ambassade de France au Vietnam
24, Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
Tel: (84-4) 39 36 21 64
Fax: (84-4) 39 36 21 65
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