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A Kidnapped West - The Tragedy of Central Europe by Milan Kundera
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The people of Central Europe cannot be separated from European history; they cannot exist outside it; but they represent the wrong side of this history; they are its victims and outsiders. In a moment of historic peril and uncertainty in mainland Europe, Milan Kundera makes the case for Central Europe ...Show more
Farewell Waltz by Milan Kundera; Aaron Asher (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: good
In this dark farce of a novel, set in an old-fashioned Central European spa town, eight characters are swept up in an accelerating dance: a pretty nurse and her repairman boyfriend; an oddball gynecologist; a rich American (at once saint and Don Juan); a popular trumpeter and his beautiful, obsessively ...Show more
Festival of Insignificance by Milan Kundera
$24.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
This is the new novel from Milan Kundera. "Enchanting...it explores all aspects of a declining civilisation without taking any of them too seriously...In this novel of Flaubertian seduction, free of blame and guilt, insignificance is the very essence of life." (La Repubblica). Casting light on the most ...Show more
Identity by Milan Kundera
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
Milan Kundera's Identity  translated from the French by Linda Asher. There are situations in which we fail for a moment to recognize the person we are with, in which the identity of the other is erased while we simultaneously doubt our own. That also happens with couples -- indeed, above all wi ...Show more
Immortality by Milan Kundera
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that cre-ates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agn#65533;s becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that ch ...Show more
Laughable Loves by Milan Kundera
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
Milan Kundera is a master of graceful illusion and illuminating surprise. In one of these stories a young man and his girlfriend pretend that she is a stranger he picked up on the road--only to become strangers to each other in reality as their game proceeds. In another a teacher fakes piety in order to ...Show more
Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead (Faber Stories) by Milan Kundera
$7.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
A chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman, now a widow, who escaped him fifteen years earlier. Neither of them doubts that the day will end in disgust, but for one intimate moment each finds a way to overcome mortality. Written in 1969, before Milan Kundera was known to E ...Show more
Life is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
The author initially intended to call this novel The Lyrical Age. The lyrical age, according to Kundera, is youth, and this novel, above all, is an epic of adolescence; an ironic epic that tenderly erodes sacrosanct values: childhood, motherhood, revolution, and even poetry. Jaromil is in fact a poet. H ...Show more
Slowness by Milan Kundera
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
Milan Kundera's lightest novel, a divertimento, an opera buffa, Slowness is also the first of this author's fictional works to have been written in French.Disconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows the narrator of Slowness through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated by mor ...Show more
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
'This book is a novel in the form of variations. The various parts follow each other like the various stages of a voyage leading into the interior of a theme, the interior of a thought, the interior of a single, unique situation the understanding of which recedes from my sight into the distance. It is a ...Show more
The Festival of Insignificance by Milan Kundera
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
From the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, an unexpected and enchanting novel--the culmination of his life's work. Casting light on the most serious of problems and at the same time saying not one serious sentence; being fascinated by the reality of the ...Show more
The Joke by Milan Kundera
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Category: General
All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now, a quarter century after The Joke was first published and several years after the collapse of the Soviet-imposed Czechoslovak regime, it becomes easier to put such implications i ...Show more