PARIS: Milan Kundera, whose dissident writings in communist Czechoslovakia transformed him into an exiled satirist of totalitarianism, has died in Paris at the age of 94, Czech media said Wednesday (Jul 12). Kundera’s renowned novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being opens wrenchingly with Soviet tanks ro
PARIS: Milan Kundera, whose dissident writings in communist Czechoslovakia transformed him into an exiled satirist of totalitarianism, has died in Paris at the age of 94, Czech media said Wednesday .
In 1989, the Velvet Revolution pushed Communists from power and Kundera’s nation was reborn as the Czech Republic, but by then he had made a new life - and a complete identity - in his attic apartment on Paris’ Left Bank. Kundera’s wife, Vera, was an essential companion to a reclusive man who eschewed technology - his translator, his social secretary, and ultimately his buffer against the outside world. It was she who fostered his friendship with Roth by serving as their linguistic go-between, and - according to a 1985 profile of the couple - it was she who took his calls and handled the inevitable demands on a world-famous author.
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