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Ein erfolgreicher Arzt und Frauenheld trifft ein unbedarftes Mädchen aus der Provinz - so begegnen sich Tomas und Teresa 1968 in Prag. Er lebt seine amourösen Abenteuer aus, sie sucht bei ihm die eine große Liebe und reagiert verletzt und eifersüchtig. Dennoch werden sie ein Paar. Doch mit dem Ende des Prager Frühlings verändert sich ihr Leben dramatisch.

Milan von Arentin wurde in die mächtigste Adelsfamilie der Welt hineingeboren. Eine Welt, in der es nur ums skrupellose Geschäft geht. Macht, Geld, Partys, Drogen und Gewalt. Alles beginnt mit einer weiteren Entführung. Eine Frau, die er am liebsten auf der Stelle umbringen würde. Doch es ist ausgerechnet sie, für die er schon bald jede Grenze überschreiten wird.

When The Unbearable Lightness of Being was first published in English, it was hailed as ""a work of the boldest mastery, originality, and richness"" by critic Elizabeth Hardwick and named one of the best books of 1984 by the New York Times Book Review. It went on to win the Los Angeles Times...

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...

Pietra miliare della letteratura del Novecento, il romanzo mette in scena un perfetto quadrilatero amoroso entro cui le storie dei protagonisti s'intrecciano con le grandi domande della vita, come quelle sul valore delle scelte individuali, sul rapporto tra pesantezza e leggerezza, libertà e costrizione. Alla fine degli anni Sessanta, tra la Primavera praghese e l'invasione sovietica, la giovane Tereza e il marito Tomáš, la pittrice Sabina e il suo amante Franz, oscillando tra fedeltà e tradimenti, esplorano passioni e vertigini di un mondo che è diventato una trappola.

Co zbylo z umírajících lidí v Kambodži? Jedna velká fotografie americké herečky, která drží v náručí žluté dítě. Co zbylo z Tomáše? Nápis: Chtěl království Boží na zemi. Co zbylo z Beethovena? Zamračený muž s nepravděpodobnou hřívou, který pronáší temným hlasem: "Es muss sein!" Co zbylo z Franze? Nápis: Po dlouhém bloudění návrat. A tak dál a tak dál. Dříve než budeme zapomenuti, budeme proměněni v kýč. Kýč je přestupní stanice mezi bytím a zapomenutím.

“Slender but weighty. . . . What is moving about this novel is its embrace of what has always driven Kundera, the delicate state of living between being and nothingness.”— Boston Globe From the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, an...

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 contemporary world and at the same time completely avoiding realism - that's The Festival of Insignificance. Listeners who know Kundera's earlier books know that the wish to incorporate an element of the "unserious" in a novel is not at all unexpected of him.

In una notte di mezza estate si intersecano due storie di seduzione, separate da più di duecento anni e oscillanti vertiginosamente fra il sublime e l’esilarante. Ma questa è solo l’intelaiatura di una vicenda che non si lascia raccontare, perché Kundera sembra avervi miniaturizzato una quantità imponente di «temi esistenziali». Primo fra tutti quello della lentezza: una parola di cui scopriremo un senso nuovo, come se non l’avessimo mai conosciuta prima.

"Mit diesem Buch lernst du in zwei Tagen mehr als in zwei Jahren bei irgendwelchen Business-College-Kursen und es kostet dich einen Bruchteil." "Geh zur Schule, finde einen guten Job, spare 10 Prozent deines Gehalts, kaufe ein gebrauchtes Auto, vertraue deine Ersparnisse der Börse an, und eines Tages, wenn du 67 bist, kannst du reich in Rente gehen." Ist dieser Finanzplan der Mittelmäßigkeit wirklich ein verlässlicher Plan, um Wohlstand zu schaffen?

Si tratta sempre di amore, in queste storie. Ma un amore a cui si accompagna ogni volta la mistificazione, con effetto deflagrante. Il mondo va felicemente in pezzi sotto i nostri occhi, frantumato dalla duplice spinta dell’eros e della mistificazione. E l’essenza amorosa, nella sua leggerezza e nel suo pathos, si sprigiona finalmente, come liberata da una costrizione.

“Kundera once more delivers a seductive, intelligent entertainment … [with] elegance and grace.” — Washington Post Book World “Nothing short of masterful.” — Newsweek A brilliant novel set in contemporary Prague, by one of the most distinguished writers of our time. A man and a...

Two newly translated works from one of the greatest literary writers and thinkers of the modern age, available together in English for the first time. Translating a work from its original language can be complicated; it’s a complex art that can easily mar and twist the intent and meaning of a...

""An absolutely dazzling entertainment. . . . Arousing on every level—political, erotic, intellectual, and above all, humorous."" —Newsweek ""The Book of Laughter and Forgetting calls itself a novel, although it is part fairy tale, part literary criticism, part political tract, part...

Qu'est-il resté des agonisants du Cambodge ? Une grande photo de la star américaine tenant dans ses bras un enfant jaune. Qu'est-il resté de Tomas ? Une inscription : Il voulait le Royaume de Dieu sur la terre. Qu'est-il resté de Beethoven ? Un homme morose à l'invraisemblable crinière, qui prononce d'une voix sombre : "Es muss sein!" Qu'est-il resté de Franz ? Une inscription : Après un long égarement, le retour. Et ainsi de suite, et ainsi de suite. Avant d'être oubliés, nous serons changés en kitsch. Le kitsch, c'est la station de correspondance entre l'être et l'oubli."

""I will say no more about this lacerating book except to urge it upon all who care about literature in our difficult era."" — Boston Globe ""A sly and merciless lampoon of revolutionary romanticism. . . Kundera commits some of the funniest literary savaging since Evelyn Waugh polished off...

"Suppose que tu rencontres un fou qui affirme qu'il est un poisson et que nous sommes tous des poissons. Vas-tu te disputer avec lui ? Vas-tu te déshabiller devant lui pour lui montrer que tu n'as pas de nageoires ? Vas-tu lui dire en face ce que tu penses ?" Son frère se taisait, et Édouard poursuivit : "Si tu ne lui disais que la vérité, que ce que tu penses vraiment de lui, ça voudrait dire que tu consens à avoir une discussion sérieuse avec un fou et que tu es toi-même fou.

""Kundera, master of the twosome, finds erotic and existential threads everywhere in daily behavior. Like his previous books, Identity is a cluster of jeweled observations. . . . But Identity has a special charm: suspense. . . . [It] gets us turning the pages in excitement and alarm, and...

""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...

New York Times Bestseller ""Inspired. . . . Kundera's most brilliantly imagined novel. . . . A book that entrances, beguiles and charms us from first page to last."" — Cleveland Plain Dealer Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a...