Prague (AFP) – Czech-French writer Milan Kundera, author of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", has died aged 94, the Milan Kundera Library said Wednesday. "Unfortunately I can confirm that Mr "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 Laughable Loves surprise and illuminate. . . . Kundera's world is complex, full of mockeries and Slowness. Milan Kundera. HarperCollinsPublishers, 1996 - France - 156 pages. After the gravity of The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Immortality, Slowness comes as a surprise: it is certainly Kundera's lightest novel, a divertimento, an opera buffa, with, as the author himself says, "not a single serious word in it"; then, too, it is the A 1980s essay by Czech writer Milan Kundera on the peoples trapped between east and west is enjoying a new lease of life, says research professor Jacques Rupnik. 25 Aug 2023. A tribute to Milan Kundera is seen among his books in a shop window in Prague, Czech Republic. The Czech-born author of the novel 'The Unbearable Lightness Of Being' died on July 12. Director and producer Miloslav Šmídmajer, whose documentary “ Milan Kundera – From Joy to Insignificance” features in the Work in Progress section of the Ji.hlava Film Festival this week Whilst in France he wrote his most famous works, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979) – an experimental novel split into seven separate narratives united by common themes – and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) – a philosophical novel centred on two sets of people and their experiences in Czechoslovakia from the Prague Spring As news spread on July 12 of the passing away of Milan Kundera, the great Czech existential writer, at 94, his readers began quoting from arguably his most well-known book, The Unbearable wswU.