milan kundera

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Definition of milan kundera in English English dictionary

born April 1, 1929, Brno, Czech. Czech-born French writer. He worked as a jazz musician and taught at Prague's film academy, but he gradually turned to writing. Though a member of the Communist Party for years, his works were banned after he participated in Czechoslovakia's short-lived liberalization movement (1967-68), and he was fired from his teaching positions. He immigrated to France in 1975 and was stripped of his Czech citizenship in 1979; he became a French citizen in 1981. His works combine erotic comedy with political criticism. The Joke (1967), his first novel, describes life under Stalin. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979), a series of wittily ironic meditations on the modern state, and the novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984; film, 1988) were banned in his homeland until 1989. His later books include Immortality (1990) and Slowness (1994)

(born 1929) Czechoslovakian writer

Hyphenation

Mi·lan kundera

Turkish pronunciation

mılän kınderı

Pronunciation

/məˈlän kənˈderə/ /məˈlɑːn kənˈdɛrə/