About the author

Milan Kundera (UK: , Czech: [ˈmɪlan kunˈdɛra] (listen); born 1 April 1929) is a Czech-born French writer who went into exile in France in 1975, and became a naturalised French citizen in 1981. He "sees himself as a French writer and insists his work should be studied as French literature and classified as such in book stores".

Kundera's best-known work is The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Prior to the Velvet Revolution of 1989 the socialist régime in Czechoslovakia banned his books. He lives virtually incognito and rarely speaks to the media. A perpetual contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature, he is believed to have been nominated on several occasions.

Om latter og glemsel

Genudgivelse i pocket-format. I februar 1948 stod kommunisternes leder Klement Gottwald frem på en balkon i Prag for at tale til tusindvis af borgere. Han var omgivet af sine kammerater, og lige ved siden af ham stod Clementis. Det var koldt, og Gottwald var barhovedet. Den omsorgsfulde Clementis tog sin pelshue af og anbragte den på Gottwalds hoved. Fire år senere blev Clementis anklaget for forræderi og hængt. Propagandaafdelingen slettede ham øjeblikkelig fra historien og fjernede ham fra alle fotografier. Siden har Gottwald stået tilbage alene på balkonen, og kun Clementis' hue på Gottwalds hoved er tilbage.  
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Edition3
Printed pages304
Publish date26 Aug 2013
Published byGyldendal
Languagedan
ISBN print9788702133646