Now, far from watching out, Kundera is finally and fully realizing his old aesthetic dream in this novel that we could easily view as a summation of his whole work. And in Slowness, Vera, the author’s wife, says to her husband: “you’ve often told me you meant to write a book one day that would have not a single serious word in it…I warn you: watch out. In Immortality, Goethe and Hemingway stroll through several chapters together talking and laughing. Readers who know Milan Kundera’s earlier books know that the wish to incorporate an element of the “unserious” in a novel is not at all unexpected of him. The book was adapted into a film - but after the film's release, Kundera never allowed another film adaptation of any of his books.From the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, an unexpected and enchanting novel-the culmination of his life's work.Ĭasting light on the most serious of problems and at the same time saying not one serious sentence being fascinated by the reality of the contemporary world and at the same time completely avoiding realism-that’s The Festival of Insignificance. Kundera published his best-known novel "The Unbearable Lighteness of Being" as a French writer. French president Mitterand gave Kundera a French citizenship. Kundera commented this: "At the time, everything was ruled by the russians and it was the russians who decided that I am no longer a Czech". In 1979, Czech government took away Kundera's citizenship. In mid 70s, Kundera accepted an invitation from Rennes University to be a guest professor for a year. This documentary analyzes all aspects that influenced Kundera during the creation of his books, including his life in Brno, the time when he studied and then taught on FAMU in Prague, the era of "normalization" when he was prohibited from publishing despite the huge success abroad. Why were Milan Kundera's books so successful all over the world? Why did he move to France and started writing in French? What is behind the fact that Kundera banned his French books from being translated to Czech? Why does he avoid publicity?
MILAN KUNDERA: FROM THE JOKE TO INSIGNIFICANCE the only documentary about Milan Kundera's legacy
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