One of the most read and mysterious writers in the world, Milan Kundera passed away at the age of 94. Kundera | The Unbearable Lightness of Life | Writer
According to Reuters, citing Czech public television reported on the 12th, writer Milan Kundera died at the age of 94.
Milan Kundera, a novelist, was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia and has been settling in France since 1975. The novels "Jokes," "Living Elsewhere," "Farewell Waltz," "Laughter and Forgetfulness," "The Unbearable Lightness of Life," and "Immortal," as well as the collection of short stories "Laughing Love," were written in the author's native Czech language. His novels "Slow," "Identity," and "Ignorance," as well as his essay collections "The Art of Fiction," "The Betrayed Will," "The Curtain," and his new work "Encounter," were written in French. Jacques and His Master is the author's representative work in drama.
On November 28, 2019, Milan Kundera regained citizenship to the government of the Czech Republic.
On September 20, 2020, Milan Kundera won the Kafka Prize for Literature.
If we want to select the "contemporary foreign writers who have the greatest impact on contemporary Chinese writers," there are two names that must be mentioned: Garcia Marquez and Milan Kundera.
Nobel laureate Mo Yan commented on Kundera, "The satire in novels is somewhat like black humor, but not entirely, forming a unique flavor."
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Wang Anyi said, "No writer has shown the same care for individual emotions as Kundera, which makes people feel warm. This is also one of Kundera's literary values."
When reading Kundera's "Ignorance", Bi Feiyu said that he "saw an old man who understood the world. When he heard the God of Fate knocking on the door, he opened his door, filled with helplessness and grief."
Xu Jun, translator, writer, and critic of "The Unbearable Lightness of Life", believes that "for Kundera, novels are the possibility of expanding human existence, and the most important point in" The Unbearable Lightness of Life "is that Kundera reveals the inevitable situation arising from the opposing duality. We need to step out of the opposing duality, search for and explore the possibility of everyone's survival. Love is like this, life is like this, and relationships with others are like this."
Milan Kundera is one of the most read writers in the world and also a successful invisible writer. For nearly 40 years, due to his constant refusal to appear in the media and extreme emphasis on protecting personal privacy, he has disappeared from public view. From "The Unbearable Lightness of Life" to "Living Elsewhere", and then to creating "Celebrating Meaninglessness" at the age of over eighty, his stories and questions are unforgettable for readers, while he himself has put a seal on his own life and the century long history associated with his experiences.
Last year, Shanghai Translation Publishing House reprinted all of Kundera's works. The publisher stated that in his literary world, Kundera has posed countless questions but never provided a unique answer. Similarly, each reader can also have their own Kundera works.