Milan Kundera, Author Harper Perennial $13.5 (345p) ISBN 978-0-06-097448-0
Kundera (whose novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being has sold more than 600,000 copies in paperback) offers brilliant meditations on 20th-century life as he contrasts a comic love triangle involving Goethe with a modern-day trio of fictional...
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Milan Kundera, Author Grove Press $0 (165p) ISBN 978-0-8021-0011-5
A novelist who writes eloquently about the wrenching dislocations of history, Kundera explains that his fictions use historical circumstances only to thrust his characters into a ""revelatory existential situation.'' The Czech writer (The Joke,...
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Milan Kundera, Author HarperCollins Publishers $25 (317p) ISBN 978-0-06-019030-9
In this new English-language version of Kundera's classic first novel, completely revised by the author to incorporate the most accurate portions of two previous translations plus his own corrections, the narrator Ludvik wonders, ``What if History...
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Milan Kundera, trans. from the French by Linda Asher. Harper, $23.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-06-235689-5
After over a decade away from writing novels, Kundera (Ignorance) returns with this slight lark about four laissez-faire Parisians. In the tradition of existential comedies, the drama is in the dialogue. The four characters—Alain, Ramon, Charles,...
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Milan Kundera, Author, Peter Kussi, Translator, Peter Kussi, Illustrator Grove Weidenfeld $21.95 (345p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1111-1
Death and immortality are the interlocking themes of the author's first novel since his 1984 bestseller, The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Kundera, himself a prominent character in the circular narrative, here contrasts the troubled, comic...
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Milan Kundera, Author, France Borel, Author, France Borel, Illustrator Thames & Hudson $60 (215p) ISBN 978-0-500-09266-8
Phenomenal drinking habits, chronic sleep deprivation, and a dangerous taste for the lowlife didn't seem to dampen Bacon's productivity. Perhaps they even fueled it. During his turbulent lifetime (1909-1992), Bacon was called variously ""the most...
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Milan Kundera, read by Richmond Hoxie. HarperAudio, unabridged, digital download, 7.25 hrs., $18.99 ISBN 978-0-06-221559-8
Originally published in 1976, Kundera’s delightful but powerful novel proves endlessly entertaining in this audio production helmed by the gifted Richmond Hoxie. Telling the tale of eight locals in a small resort town in Central Europe, the book...
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Milan Kundera, Author, Linda Asher, Translator , trans. from the French by Linda Asher. HarperCollins $23.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-06-000209-1
"Would an Odyssey
even be conceivable today? Is the epic of return pertinent to our own time? When Odysseus woke on Ithaca's shore that morning, could he have listened in ecstasy to the music of the Great Return if the old olive trees had...
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Milan Kundera, Author, Linda Asher, Translator , trans. from the French by Linda Asher. HarperCollins $22.95 (168p) ISBN 978-0-06-084186-7
It's not often that a work comes along that so perfectly distills an approach to art that it realigns the way an art form is understood. Susan Sontag's revolutionary work On Photography
was one such piece. Kundera's new book-length...
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Milan Kundera, trans. from the French by Linda Asher, Harper, $23.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-189441-1
These mercurial occasional pieces crackle in their soulful brevity. Kundera's (Immortality) unexpected insights into surrealism (especially the poets), the darkly grotesque, the nonconformist temperament will be familiar to readers immersed in this...
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Milan Kundera, Author, Linda Asher, Translator HarperCollins $23 (176p) ISBN 978-0-06-017564-1
In his second novel written in French (after Slowness), Czech-born novelist Kundera employs spare prose in the service of a meditation on the precarious nature of the human sense of self. Recently divorced ad executive Chantal, on a vacation with...
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Milan Kundera, Author, Linda Asher, Translator HarperCollins Publishers $24 (280p) ISBN 978-0-06-017145-2
In this stimulating, free-form essay, Czech novelist Kundera (The Art of the Novel) traces the evolution of the novel from Rabelais to Kafka and draws parallels between literature and music as he shuttles effortlessly among Tolstoy, Nietzsche,...
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Milan Kundera, Author, Linda Asher, Translator HarperCollins Publishers $21 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-017369-2
Kundera's latest (after Immortality) is a scintillating jeu d'esprit, as coolly elegant and casually brutal as the 18th-century French arts to which the text pays tribute. Indeed, this is the expatriate Czech author's first novel written in French,...
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