![]() ![]() ![]() He wrote many novels, this being perhaps the most famous, but also The Joke and The Book Of Laughter and Forgetting. Kundera was a Czech but lived most of his life in exile in France as his country was occupied by Soviet forces. He has won many other awards including most recently the Franz Kafka prize. Many believe Kundera, now 90, is an ideal candidate for Nobel prize for this book. Well, it is all of the above, and that is what makes this a modern classic. ![]() Is it fiction – a story of a young woman in love with an incorrigible womanizer? Is it history – documenting Czech life during the soviet occupation? Is it a political treatise – showing how the high ideals of communism denigrated into hypocrisy? Or is it philosophy – deeply exploring relationships and the ideal way to live? ![]()
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