Milan Kundera

Mohammad and Kundera: On the Power of Humor and the Troubles of Translation

David Kersh | Posted 04.10.2012

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David Kersh

Undoubtedly, translation is a tricky business; but what is sadly clear, though, is how the need to do away with humor translates so seamlessly and all too well, from Kundera's fictional Czech republic to a very real and dangerous Iran.

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Reading Vaclav Havel In Havana

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 02.24.2012

Read More: Milan Kundera, Charter 77, The Garden Party, Fidel Castro, Vaclav Havel, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Perestroika, Czech Spring, Raul Castro, Granma, Civic Forum, Kim Jong Il, North Korea, Czech Republic, World News
Yoani Sanchez

Last weekend Vaclav Havel died, just at the time when he was most read in Cuba. He left and we can't hear his voice in a classroom of our University, nor listen to his extensive collection of anecdotes about the years of Soviet control.

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Queries and Hopes for the Future of Storytelling

Kieran Fitzgerald | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Creativity, Authors, Milan Kundera, Interactive, Filmmaking, Self-Publishing, Youtube, Storytelling, Blogging, Culture News
Kieran Fitzgerald

It's my hope that going forward we do not come to undervalue, or lose sight of, art's special capacity. I hope future generations will be able to spend their moments interacting with the ever-replenishing fount of a composition.

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Best Literary Sex Scenes (Most Don't Take Place In Beds)

flavorwire.com | Kathleen Massara | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Milan Kundera, Beloved, Toni Morrison, The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore, Joyce Carol Oates, Literary Sex Scenes, Sex, Kathy Acker, Zora Neale Hurston, Benjamin Hale, Books News

Writing about sex in literature is a difficult task; there are so many ways authors can go wrong. Nowadays, most writers spend too much time on the bu...

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Book Review Roundup: Milan Kundera, Tana French, Adventures On K2

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Encounters, Allegra Goodman, Per Petterson, What the Great Ate, Tana French, K2, Milan Kundera, Mountain Climbing, Book Review, Reviews, Authors, Books News

"Encounter" by Milan Kundera Milan Kundera asks this question in writing about the painter Francis Bacon, one of many cultural figures he addresses ...

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Translators Deserve Credit Too: Who Really Wrote The Kundera You Love?

The Guardian | Tim Parks | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Milan Kundera, Orhan Pamuk, Translators, Writing, Authors, Tim Parks, Books, Translation, Kazuo Ishiguro, Books News

Who wrote the Milan Kundera you love? Answer: Michael Henry Heim. And what about the Orhan Pamuk you think is so smart? Maureen Freely. Or the imagina...

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In Praise of Slow Thinking

Carl Honore | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Milan Kundera, Creativity, Einstein, Fast Thinking, Slow Thinking, In Praise of Slowness, Malcolm Gladwell, Books, Slow, Darwin, Slow Movement, Google, Arianna's Reading, Books News
Carl Honore

Slow Thinking is intuitive, woolly and creative. It is what we do when the pressure is off, and there is time to let ideas simmer on the back burner. It yields rich, nuanced insights and sometimes surprising breakthroughs.

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"Unbearable Lightness" Author Kundera Informed On Western Spy, Document Shows

AP | ONDREJ HEJMA | Posted 05.25.2011

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PRAGUE, Czech Republic — A document written by the Czech Communist police claims that Milan Kundera _ author of "The Unbearable Lightness of Bei...

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Culture Zohn: The Unbearable Lightness of Being '08

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Milan Kundera, John McCain, Juliette Binoche, Russia Georgia War, Daniel Day Lewis, Sarah Palin, Lena Olin, Politics News
Patricia Zohn

2008-09-03-zohn_bowler.jpgIt's important to remember that politics demands nuance and good listening skills, that politicians are not saints (except I guess St. Sarah), that dealing with repressive Russia is not going to be uncomplicated.

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Milan Kundera Receives Czech Literary Award

Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011

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Milan Kundera has won the Czech Republic's State Award for Literature for the first publication of his novel "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" in hi...

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