The son of Ludvík Kundera, a musicologist from Brno, Milan Kundera studied several different subjects. After graduating he worked for a short time as a lecturer in world literature at the Film Faculty of the Academy of Music,Drama and Fine Arts. In 1975 he left for France where he was offered a position as a visiting professor at the University of Rheims. Apart from devoting himself to writing, this author of world-renowned novels (The Joke, Life is Elsewhere, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting and The Unbearable Lightness of Being) crosses out, or, more precisely, distances himself from some of his older works. Thus far he has removed from his work a play entitled The Owners of the Keys and all stories from his first collection of Laughable Loves. Kundera's novels are distinguished by prosaic rationalism, anti-lyricism, almost cynical distance from the world,complex composition and figures through which he demonstrates social relations and regularities.Kundera has become the most famous contemporary writer
of Czech descent in the world.
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