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The Franco-Czech novelist Milan Kundera (1929–2023) was born in Brno and lived in France, his second homeland, since 1975 until his death. He is the author of the novels The Joke, Life Is Elsewhere, Farewell Waltz, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and the short story collection Laughable Loves—all originally in Czech. His more recent novels, Slowness, Identity, Ignorance, and The Festival of Insignificance, as well as his nonfiction works, The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain, and Encounter, were originally written in French.

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Bibliography

Standalone Fiction

The Joke

Let the Old Dead Make Room for the New Dead: Faber Stories

Laughable Loves

Laughable Loves

Short story collection

Jacques and His Master: A Play

Farewell Waltz

Life Is Elsewhere

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Immortality

Slowness

Identity

Ignorance

The Festival of Insignificance

Standalone Non-fiction

The Art of the Novel

Testaments Betrayed

The Curtain

Encounter

A Kidnapped West

89 Words followed by Prague

Little Stacks of Classics & Literary Fiction

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