Kundera, dubbed 'the most European of writers', died in his Paris apartment following a long illness.
abc.net.au/news/milan-kundera-author-death/102596972Czech-born writer Milan Kundera, author of the novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, who emigrated in disillusionment from his Communist-ruled homeland, has died at the age of 94.He emigrated to France in 1975 after being ostracised for criticising the Soviet invasionThe Moravian Library in the Czech city of Brno, home to Kundera's personal collection, said he died in his Paris apartment after a long illness.
"Milan Kundera's work is at the same time a deep, human, intimate and distant exploration," she said. "I remember that on his hospital bed, which he had at home, he only had one book — The Plague by Albert Camus," he said.Kundera's first novel, The Joke, was published in 1967 and offered a scathing portrayal of the Czechoslovak Communist regime and the ruling party of which he was still a member.
His best-known book, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, published in 1984, focused on the Prague Spring and its turbulent demise with Czechs despairing of totalitarianism's grip retreating into obscure private lives or emigrating to the West.
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