François Kérel Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

The author initially intended to call this novel, The Lyrical Age. The lyrical age, according to Kundera, is youth, and this novel, above all, is an epic of adolescence; an ironic epic that tenderly erodes sacrosanct values: childhood, motherhood, revolution, and even poetry. Jaromil is in fact a poet. His mother made hima poet and accompanies him (figuratively) to his love bed and (literally) to his deathbed. A ridiculous and touching character, horrifying and totally innocent ("innocence with its bloody smile"!), Jaromil is at the same time a true poet. He's no creep, he's Rimbaud. Rimbaud entrapped by the communist revolution, entrapped in a somber farce.

Sedem poviedok od Milana Kunderu, ktorých námetom je láska postavená do komických súvislostí, alebo vlastne to, čo ľudia v komických súvislostiach považujú za pokus o milostný vzťah. Kniha Smiešne lásky obsahuje poviedky Sestrička mojich sestričiek, Zlaté jablko večnej túžby, Zvestovateľ, Falošný autostop, Starí mŕtvi nech ustúpia mladým mŕtvym. Podľa dvoch poviedok boli natočené filmy: Nikto sa nebude smiať (réžia Hynek Bočan, 1965) a Ja, trúchlivý boh (réžia Antonín Kachlík, 1969)

Offers a blend of stories, anecdotes, political history, and autobiography to create variations on several themes, including the power of laughter and the danger of forgetting

In this novel - a story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities - Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of twentieth-century 'Being' In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. We feel, says the novelist, 'the unbearable lightness of being' - not only as the consequence of our private acts but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine.Juxtaposing Prague, Geneva, Thailand and the United States, this masterly novel encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy, and embraces, it seems, all aspects of human existence. It offers a wide range of brilliant and amusing philosophical speculations and it descants on a variety of styles.

Set in the not-too-distant past, this comic and exuberantly lustful tale by the author of The Miracle Game is also a savage parody of life under foreign occupation. The conscripts of a Czech battalion prepare themselves for inevitable war with the US - using unconventional tactics.