What is Milan Kundera?
[[File:Milan Kundera redux.jpg|thumb|Milan Kundera (1980)]] '''Milan Kundera''' ({{IPAc-en|UK|ˈ|k|ʊ|n|d|ə|r|ə|,_|ˈ|k|ʌ|n|-}},<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/kundera |title=Kundera |website=[[Collins English Dictionary]] |publisher=[[HarperCollins]] |access-date=2 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite Oxford Dictionaries|Kundera, Milan|access-date=2 August 2019}}</ref> 1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a [[writer]] who was born in [[Czechoslovakia]] and wrote mainly in the Czech and French languages. He was best known as the writer of ''The Unbearable Lightness of Being'', ''The Book of Laughter and Forgetting'', and ''Identity''. The sale of his books in his home country was forbidden until the fall of [[communism]] in Czechoslovakia in 1989. Kundera lived in [[France]] from 1975 until his death. Kundera died after a long-illness in [[Paris]], France on 11 July 2023, at the age of 94.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Presse |first=AFP-Agence France |title=Czech Writer Milan Kundera Dies At 94 |url=https://www.barrons.com/news/czech-writer-milan-kundera-dies-at-94-a70ebc9a |access-date=2023-07-12 |website=www.barrons.com |language=en-US}}</ref> ==Writing== A number of Kundera's novels appear to criticise [[totalitarianism]] and the impact of totalitarianism on art. ==Bibliography== ===Poetry=== * ''Man: A Wide Garden'' (''Člověk zahrada širá'') (1953) * ''The Last May'' (''Poslední máj'') (1961) – celebration of [[Julius Fučík]] * ''Monologues'' (''Monology'') (1965) ===Essays=== * ''About the Disputes of Inheritance'' (1955) * ''The Art of the Novel: Vladislav Vančura's Path to the Great Epic (Umění románu: Cesta Vladislava Vančury za velkou epikou)'' (1960) * ''The Czech Deal (Český úděl)'' (1968) * ''Radicalism and Exhibitionism (Radikalismus a exhibicionismus)'' (1969) * ''The Stolen West or The Tragedy of Central Europe (Únos západu aneb Tragédie střední Evropy)'' (1983) * ''The Art of the Novel (L'art du Roman)'' (1986) * ''Testaments Betrayed (Les testaments trahis)'' (1992) *