Author Milan Kundera has died – was at all times thought-about a powerful candidate for the Nobel Prize

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One of the well-known works of the author often known as a dissident was The Insufferable Lightness of Being.

Czech born writer Milan Kundera has died on the age of 94 on the afternoon of July 11. The Czech Broadcasting Company was the primary to report on this in its information on July 12.

In keeping with the writer’s French publishing home Gallimard, Kundera died of a “extended sickness” in Paris, the place he had lived for many years.

On Wednesday, the European Parliament noticed a second of silence because of Kundera’s demise.

Among the many most well-known novels of the prolific author are his debut work lineup (1967), The e-book of laughter and forgetting (1979), The insufferable lightness of being (1984) in addition to A glorification of meaninglessness (2014).

Fourteen books have been translated into Finnish, along with novels, essays from each Czech and French.

Kundera’s final novel A glorification of meaninglessness appeared with us Ville Keynäs in Finnish 2015.

Kundera was born 1929 in Brno, then Czechoslovakia, now within the Czech Republic. The household was educated, and Kundera additionally started finding out philosophy at Charles College in Prague.

Nevertheless, he quickly modified them to research on the Academy of Performing Arts and its movie faculty, the place he studied directing and screenwriting. In time, he grew to become a professor on the Academy.

As a younger man, Kundera labored as a handyman in addition to a jazz musician and debuted as a lyricist within the Nineteen Fifties. A set of quick tales from the subsequent decade has been revealed in Finnish below the identify The e-book of ridiculous loves.

Milan Kundera posed in a Prague backyard in 1973. Two years later, difficulties with the administration and the Communist Occasion made the author transfer to France. Image: AFP

Kunder joined the Communist Occasion as an adolescent. Nevertheless, he was lively within the Prague Spring in 1968, when makes an attempt have been made to implement social and political reforms within the nation.

Nevertheless, the Soviet Union suppressed the actions with navy power in August 1968.

Jo Kundera’s debut novel lineup (1967) had introduced him into battle with the regime: in it, a number of ill-considered sentences result in the demise of individuals in a totalitarian state.

Each that and the subsequent novel Life is elsewhere (1969) acquired consideration elsewhere as properly, and have been translated into French, for instance. The novels have been banned in Finland.

When Kundera refused to “confess his political errors” after the Soviet occupation, he was additionally dismissed from his educating place and from the get together.

Difficulties with the regime and the Communist Occasion ultimately led to the author shifting to France in 1975. He misplaced his Czechoslovak citizenship in 1979 and gained French citizenship in 1981.

He solely bought Czech citizenship once more in 2019 collectively together with his spouse True with.

Whereas dwelling in France, Kundera modified his writing language and revealed his works in French beginning within the mid-Nineteen Nineties.

Milan Kundera with his spouse Vera in Prague 1973.

Milan Kundera together with his partner Vera in Prague 1973. Image: AFP

Aside from his nation as an exiled dissident, additionally as an excellent author, Kundera rose to world fame within the Eighties. He has at all times been thought-about a critical Nobel Prize candidate.

Particularly From the insufferable lightness of being grew to become a world bestseller, and recognition elevated in 1988 Philip Kaufmanin a Hollywood film directed about it.

Kundera’s works mix the on a regular basis lifetime of European individuals, each within the East and the West, with philosophical ideas and ideologies.

Even in novels, historical past, fiction and essay are mixed, and sometimes the topic is literature itself, as within the work Immortality (1988). Eroticism and love are additionally strongly featured within the manufacturing.

The primary theme is the issue of human freedom, which turns into most clearly seen exactly in totalitarianism: when an individual can not freely categorical himself, it impacts – typically destructively – additionally his emotions and relationships.

In latest a long time Kundera’s manufacturing was accused of misogyny, because the actions of the male protagonists typically appear to be pushed by the compulsion of serial love, betrayal and seduction.

Ladies, however, are sometimes handled as objects and unwilling victims. That’s why, for instance, the British feminist author Joan Smith’s by All of Kundera’s depictions of ladies are marked by “hostility”.

The writer’s final remaining, revealed on the age of 86 The reward of meaninglessness in his evaluation HS critic Teemu Manninen questioned if Kundera had already “misjudged his time”.

For him, the work “feels both hostile or resigned in a manner that's distinctive in Kundera’s manufacturing”.