Publisher's Synopsis
Examines the fiction, essays and interviews of the Czechoslovakian writer Milan Kundera. Kundera was born in Brno in 1929 and his work includes "Laughable Loves", "Life is Elsewhere", "The Farewell Party", "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" and "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". The author examines the work of Kundera as well as looking at the cultural factors that influenced his work.