Kundera was born in 1929 at Purkyňova 6 (6 Purkyně Street) in Královo Pole, a quarter of Brno, Czechoslovakia, to a middle-class family. His father, Ludvík Kundera (1891–1971), was an important Czech musicologist and … 查看更多內容

Kundera often explicitly identifies his characters as figments of his imagination, using a first-person narrator who comments on the characters in otherwise third-person narratives. … 查看更多內容

In 1985, Kundera received the Jerusalem Prize. His acceptance address appears among the essays collected in The Art of the Novel. He won The Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 1987. In 2000, he was awarded the international Herder Prize. … 查看更多內容

Kundera appears in the third volume of Danganronpa Togami by Yuya Sato, where he (also known as "K") explains to the former Shinobu Togami about how Borges and the K2K … 查看更多內容

Although his early poetic works are staunchly pro-communist, his novels escape ideological classification. Kundera has repeatedly … 查看更多內容

In 2009, Kundera signed a petition in support of Polish film director Roman Polanski, calling for his release after he was arrested in … 查看更多內容

Novels
• The Joke (Žert) (1967)
• Life Is Elsewhere (Život je jinde) (1969)
• The Farewell Waltz (Valčík na rozloučenou) (Original translation title: The Farewell Party) (French version “La Valse aux Adieux”) (1972) 查看更多內容