Milan Kundera

• MovieThe Unbearable Lightness of Being

  1988
  RT8.1/10RT87%
• MovieWomanlight

  1979
  IMDb6.4/10
• MovieThe Joke

  1969

Award won Role or nomination

• SSStellan Skarsgård1 title
• WMWalter Murch1 title
• PKPhilip Kaufman1 title
• RBRoberto Benigni1 title
• SZSaul Zaentz1 title
• MRMichel Robin1 title
• JRJean Reno1 title
• JBJuliette Binoche1 title
• ARAnn Roth1 title
• DDDaniel Day-Lewis1 title

• Influenced

  • PRPhilip Roth
  • AFAlain Finkielkraut

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• Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away by his unequaled imagination, they look for allegories — and come up with…

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• A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

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• The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.

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• Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human habit of judging instantly, ceaselessly, and everyone; of judging before, and in…

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• Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace.

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• Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.

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