Milan Kundera · The

Author: Milan Kundera
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Publish Date: 2003-06-01
Features: The is the breakthrough work that established Kundera's status in world literature. In 1968, after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, The was banned. Due to this book, Kundera lost his position at the Film Academy and, with his wife, left Czechoslovakia in 1975 to move to France. The is Milan Kundera's , published in Czech, which achieved enormous success before being banned, selling three editions with astonishing print runs, each selling out within days. From then on, Kundera's significant position in the contemporary literary scene of Czechoslovakia was firmly established.