The joke, his first novel, is a masterpiece. His essays in french language are amazing.

@pointlessalbatros177

9 ай бұрын

I just read the joke this week, having picked it up a couple months ago. It is unbelievable that that book was a debut, I was incredibly impressed. I l loved that some of the themes like lightness and heaviness and Nietzsche where already there.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being is one of my favourite novel of all time.

@santanughosh2313

9 ай бұрын

It's my favourite as well . ✌

@nikkivenable73

9 ай бұрын

It’s been sitting on my shelf for years. Is it a hard, dense read? Or is it immensely readable? Somewhere in-between? I’m not sure why, but I keep putting off reading it.

@clemfarley7257

8 ай бұрын

Very readable

@happygucci5094

8 ай бұрын

Mine too- I came to read it from my then favorite novel- Anna Karenina 😊

@hartinidw2944

7 ай бұрын

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Book of laughter and forgetting has a story titled Mother which just amazes me every time I read it. The nuance with which generation gap , sexuality , marital tension n bliss are juxtaposed is just beyond my capability even to describe

Kundera is my favorite modern writer . Many thanks for this review

Another excellent review. Just reading the unbearable lightness now and this helps me understand it better .thank you❤

Thank you so much for this ❤️✨

Thank you very much I read Unbearable lightness of being more than one time, it bring so many thoughts.

Great video, thanks. I clicked on this video out of curiosity then discovered he'd written The Unbearable Lightness of Being - which I've been meaning to read for a while!

@Fiction_Beast

8 ай бұрын

Cool, thanks!

“Tomas would have been lethal in the age of Tinder” 🤣

Great video! I believe TULOB was his best work! I really love it. I hope to read his essays soon.

I am sorry so much for death of Milan Kundera! I remember reading of his books in the summer some years ago!

Thank you for reviewing The Unbearable Lightness of Being. It has remained one of my favourites s8nce first reading it in 1991.

I hope you can do another video on best South American novels.

@cheri238

9 ай бұрын

Yes.❤

A video on Charles Baudelaire please

Hello, I was wondering if you could make a video on Fernando Pessoa, the portugese poet please?

My little Czech soul will always be thankful, Prague spring was always a full of hope until waking up on August 21. 1968 and Russian and Bulgarian tanks were ready to fire!

This is very helpful as I haven’t read any of his novels. I can easily imagine the sense of liberation he must have felt in moving from an authoritarian society to one based on the individual.

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Thank you , Fiction Book, always thought-provoking on writers, Philosophy, Histories. Milan Kundera was an interesting author and your analysis is brillant as always, by contrasts of where the writer was born, what years and where they might up and France has given freedom for many artists and creative works, whether it is painting, dance, music, novelists, poltical adventures of history and philosophy. You are always informative with connections of various areas of thought and distance. Countrysides of landscapes. I have read, "The Joke," my favoite also. "The Unbearable Lightness of being." The film with Daniel Dey Lewis was brilliantly played in his role of Tomas. (Why? He is Daniel Dey Lewis) One of our great actors of this generation. 👏 I have unfortunately not read Kunderi essays. Another quest I will look into. Thank you again for all you videos. This world is blessed by having you here. ❤

Great video but would REALLY appreciate some kind of spoiler alert.

Please give subtitles.

Have you read his "art of the novel"? Is it any good?

Immortality is the best one

I did not know Kundra considered himself French. The only book i read of his was The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and viewed it very Czech. But anyway, it makes me sad that the literary cannon is mainly English and French authors, and hence Kundra only had a chance bcs of his French identity

The book I like the best from him is "Laughable Loves" (1969) - "Směšné lásky". Seven bright short stories about "real life" love.

0:13 Carl Chapek?

Looking deeper into the Joke, where the quest to conquer all of our desires only leads to a insatiable appetite to temporarily satisfy our eternal thirst of our emotional needs of success. Which was comprehended as an unrelenting eternal Joke that has no endings even onto the next generation where our life's, a joke. To pursue something that's always a step ahead of our desire for complete satisfaction. JamesWhiskey

Tamas did not fail to love his wife.

So is The unbearable lightness of being some type of anti book to Houellebecq's debut novel from 1994, since that is supposed to predict incels and we here have the opposite of an incel? Or maybe the observation is that Houellebeq always compares the sexual market with the free market, while Milan Kundera shows the same thing happening in a socialist country? Or maybe I am lost in my thinking. I have read the books, but I might not have understood it and mostly remember the movie.

@42976675

7 ай бұрын

ULOB published 1984.

Thomas, well at least he has his wife till the end... Can't stop what you love. Just wonder how many children 😂

It's a pity he was never awarded the Nobel prize; but then again, this prize is bankrupt and has no credibility at all. Many great writers like Tolstoy, James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Borges, and Checkov never got it, while some who wrote only short stories - and don't forget songwriters - were awarded the prize because they were "politically correct", sadly literary merit alone will get you nowhere!!!!

You got hiss french relation wrong..

No doubt the less responsibility you accept the more of it you perceive.