Milan Kundera

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  • Bibliography:
    16 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1974
  • Latest Book:
    October 2019
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Books in Order: 16 titles

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  • Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead

    Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. A chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman, now a widow, who escaped him fiftee...

  • The Festival of Insignificance

    From the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" comes an unexpected and enchanting novel -- the culmination of his life's work that is a hymn to friendship and an original and humorous commentary on our e...

  • Ignorance

    “Kundera once more delivers a seductive, intelligent entertainment … [with] elegance and grace.”  --  Washington Post Book World“Nothing short of masterful.”   --  NewsweekA brilliant novel set in contemporary Pragu...

  • Immortalita

  • Farewell Waltz

    "After Farewell Waltz there cannot be any doubt. Kundera is a master of contemporary literature. This novel is both an an example of virtuosity and a descent into the human soul." -- L'UniteSet in an old-fashioned Central European spa town, Far...

  • Identity

    "Kundera, master of the twosome, finds erotic and existential threads everywhere in daily behavior. Like his previous books, Identity is a cluster of jeweled observations. . . . But Identity has a special charm: suspense. . . . [It] gets us turning t...

  • Slowness

    "Irresistible. . . . Slowness is an ode to sensuous leisure, to the enjoyment of pleasure rather than just the search for it." --  MirabellaMilan Kundera's lightest novel, a divertimento, an opera buffa, Slowness is also the first of this autho...

  • The Joke

    "A thoughtful, intricate, ambivalent novel with the reach of greatness in it." -- John Updike"It is impossible to do justice here to the subtleties, comedy, and wisdom of this very beautiful novel. Milan Kundera is an artist, clearly one of the best...

  • Immortality

    New York Times Bestseller"Inspired. . . . Kundera's most brilliantly imagined novel. . . . A book that entrances, beguiles and charms us from first page to last."  --  Cleveland Plain DealerMilan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual ...



  • The Art of the Novel

    In this first work of nonfiction, Milan Kundera offers a "practitioner's confession" on the art of the novel. "Every novelist's work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of what the novel is," Kundrea writes. "I have tried...

  • Jacques and His Master

    Jacques and His Master is a deliciously witty and entertaining play by Milan Kundera, the acclaimed Franco-Czech author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting.

    A highly original variation on Enlightenmen...

  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being

    A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover--these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. In a world in which lives are s...

  • The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

    "An absolutely dazzling entertainment. . . . Arousing on every level -- political, erotic, intellectual, and above all, humorous." -- Newsweek"The Book of Laughter and Forgetting calls itself a novel, although it is part fairy tale, part literary cr...

  • The Farewell Party

    A famous jazz trumpeter and incurable philanderer returns to the spa where he spent one consequential night with a pretty young nurse and where his strategy of persuading her to abort their child complicates their own lives and the destinies of other...

  • Laughable Loves

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    "An intellectual heavyweight and a pure literary virtuoso, Milan Kundera takes some of Freud's most cherished complexes and irreverently whirls them about in acts of legerdemain that capture our darkest, deepest human passions. . . . The tales in Lau...

  • Life Is Elsewhere

    "I will say no more about this lacerating book except to urge it upon all who care about literature in our difficult era." --  Boston Globe"A sly and merciless lampoon of revolutionary romanticism. . . Kundera commits some of the funniest liter...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Milan Kundera has published 16 books.

Milan Kundera does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead, was published in October 2019.

The first book by Milan Kundera, Life Is Elsewhere, was published in January 1974.

No. Milan Kundera does not write books in series.
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