A budding poet and his adoring mother are the central characters of this intriguing early novel by Milan Kundera. He takes us through the young man’s fantasies and love affairs in a characteristic tour de force, alive with wit, eroticism and ideas....

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 earlier when they chose to become exiles....

Sometimes – perhaps only for an instant – we fail to recognise a companion; for a moment their identity ceases to exist, and thus we come to doubt our own. The effect is at its most acute in a couple where our existence is given meaning by our perception of a lover, and theirs of us....

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. A chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman, now a widow, who escaped him fifteen years earlier....

Slowness was Milan Kundera’s first novel written in French. Disconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows him through a midsummer’s night in which two tales of seduction, separated in time by more than two hundred years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and ridiculous....

Casting 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....

A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon; a man torn between his love for her and his womanising. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals; while her other lover stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities....

Der Schriftsteller Milan und seine Frau Vera ziehen sich für eine Nacht auf ein französisches Landschloss zurück. Sie suchen Ruhe, treffen aber stattdessen auf die extravaganten Forscher eines Fliegenkongresses. Ganz anders......

Laughable Loves is a collection of stories that first appeared in print in Prague before 1968, but was then banned....

Ein Buch uber das Lachen und Vergessen, Schwingungen der Liebe und Triebe, uber Politik, Macht und Heimat. Tamina, eine junge Emigrantin, versucht nach dem Tod ihres Mannes, s...

This breathtaking, reverberating survey of human nature finds Kundera still attempting to work out the meaning of life without losing his acute sense of humour. It is one of those great unclassifiable masterpieces that appear once every twenty years or so....

Knjiga smijeha i zaborava” naziva se romanom, premda je to istodobno bajka, knjizevna teorija, politicka rasprava, muzikoloska studija i autobiografija. Moze se zvati kako joj drago, jer je kao cjelina genijalna. Ova je knjiga briljantna i originalna, cisto i mudro napisana, jednostavno neodoljiva....

Im \"Buch der lacherlichen Liebe\" erzahlt Milan Kundera von den merkwiirdigsten Sehnsiichten und komischsten Begierden mit all dem Witz und all der Passion, die ihn seit dem Erscheinen seines Romans \"Die unertragliche Leichtigkeit des......

A novel by the author of \"The Unbearable Lightness of Being\". A moment of confusion sets in motion a complex chain of events which crosses and recrosses the divide between fantasy and reality....

Kundera whirls through comedy and tragedy towards his central question: how does a person, any person, live today? In constructing his answer, he writes of politics, sex, literature, modern man\"s alienation - and of their antidotes: laughter and......