PRAGUE — Czech-born author Milan Kundera, creator of the novel “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” who lived practically 5 a long time in Paris, has died on the age of 94.
The Moravian Library (MZK), which homes Kundera’s private assortment, stated he had died in his Paris condominium on Tuesday after a protracted sickness.
Kundera received accolades for the way in which he depicted themes and characters that floated between the mundane actuality of on a regular basis life and the lofty world of concepts.
“Milan Kundera was a writer who reached whole generations of readers across all continents and achieved global fame,” Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala stated.
“He leaves behind not only notable fiction, but also significant essay work.”
Kundera was born within the Czech metropolis of Brno however emigrated to France in 1975 after being ostracized for criticizing the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia to place down the liberal reform motion of the Prague Spring in 1968.
He not often gave interviews, believing writers ought to converse by means of their work, however his relationship along with his house nation was usually troublesome after his departure.
His first novel, “The Joke”, was printed in 1967 and provided a scathing portrayal of the Czechoslovak Communist regime and the occasion he was nonetheless a member of.
He finally deserted his hopes that the occasion might be reformed, and moved to France in 1975. Four years later, he was stripped of his Czechoslovak citizenship.
He advised the French every day Le Monde in 1976 that to name his works political was to oversimplify, and subsequently obscure their true significance, however his books usually took a political tone.
“The Book of Laughter and Forgetting” (1979) was a narrative written in seven elements that confirmed the facility of totalitarian regimes to erase elements of historical past and create another previous.
His most well-known work, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” (1984), centered on the Prague Spring and its aftermath.
It was made into a movie starring Daniel Day-Lewis and directed by Philip Kaufman in 1988 that earned two Academy Award nominations.
Kundera was made a citizen of the Czech Republic in 2019. — Reuters
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