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A Kidnapped West - The Tragedy of Central Europe by Milan Kundera
$22.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
The people of Central Europe cannot be separated from European history; they cannot exist outside it; but they represent the wrong side of this history; they are its victims and outsiders. In a moment of historic peril and uncertainty in mainland Europe, Milan Kundera makes the case for Central Europe ...Show more
Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A new edition of the seminal novel by a literary master, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of its first publication. 'One is torn between profound pleasure in the novel's execution and wonder at the pain that inspired it.' Ian McEwan 'A masterpiece.' Salman Rushdie This book is a novel in the form of ...Show more
Encounter by Milan Kundera
$24.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
With the same dazzling mix of emotion and idea that characterizes his novels he illuminates the art and artists who remain important to him and whose work helps us better understand the world. An astute and brilliant reader of fiction, Kundera applies these same gifts to the reading of Francis Bacon's p ...Show more
Festival of Insignificance by Milan Kundera
$24.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
This is the new novel from Milan Kundera. "Enchanting...it explores all aspects of a declining civilisation without taking any of them too seriously...In this novel of Flaubertian seduction, free of blame and guilt, insignificance is the very essence of life." (La Repubblica). Casting light on the most ...Show more
Identity by Milan Kundera
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Milan Kundera's Identity  translated from the French by Linda Asher. There are situations in which we fail for a moment to recognize the person we are with, in which the identity of the other is erased while we simultaneously doubt our own. That also happens with couples -- indeed, above all wi ...Show more
Ignorance by Milan Kundera
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
In Ignorance, set in contemporary Prague, one of the most distinguished writers of our time takes up the complex and emotionally charged theme of exile and creates from it a literary masterpiece. A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned twenty years ea ...Show more
Immortality by Milan Kundera
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that cre-ates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agn#65533;s becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that ch ...Show more
Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead: Faber Stories by Milan Kundera
$7.99 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
A chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman, now a widow, who escaped him fifteen years earlier. Neither of them doubts that the day will end in disgust, but for one intimate moment each finds a way to overcome mortality. Written in 1969, before Milan Kundera was known to E ...Show more
Life is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The author initially intended to call this novel The Lyrical Age. The lyrical age, according to Kundera, is youth, and this novel, above all, is an epic of adolescence; an ironic epic that tenderly erodes sacrosanct values: childhood, motherhood, revolution, and even poetry. Jaromil is in fact a poet. H ...Show more
Slowness by Milan Kundera
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Milan Kundera's lightest novel, a divertimento, an opera buffa, Slowness is also the first of this author's fictional works to have been written in French.Disconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows the narrator of Slowness through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated by mor ...Show more
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'This book is a novel in the form of variations. The various parts follow each other like the various stages of a voyage leading into the interior of a theme, the interior of a thought, the interior of a single, unique situation the understanding of which recedes from my sight into the distance. It is a ...Show more
The Curtain by Milan Kundera
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
In this entertaining and always stimulating collection of seven essays, Kundera deftly sketches out his personal view of the history and value of the novel. Too often, he suggests, a novel is thought about only within the confines of the nation of its origin, when in fact the novel's development has alw ...Show more