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People best know Czech-born writer Milan Kundera for his novels, including The Joke (1967), The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979), and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), all of which exhibit his extreme though often comical skepticism. Since 1975, he lived in exile in France and in 1981 as a naturalized citizen. Kundera wrote in Czech and French. He revises the French translations of all his books; people therefore consider these original works as not translations. The Communist government of Czechoslovakia censored and duly banned his books from his native country, the case until the downfall of this government in the velvet revolution of 1989.
1969
2026
1970
1972
2013
1957
2013
La lenteur ; L'identité ; L'ignorance
2005
Cloaca - New & Improved
2002
2011
2000
1984
1997
1995
The Tragedy of Central Europe
1983
1963
2025
2014
2005
2006
2004
Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins
2006
2004
1990
1986
1999
An Anthology
1984
2005
2009
An Essay in Seven Parts
2005
1969
1979
1995
1973
An Essay in Nine Parts
1993
1962
A Play
1971
2007
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich, Laughable Loves, This Way for the Gas Ladies and Gentlemen
1980
1967
2000
1985
2026
1995
2006