Milan Kundera Audio Books

Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera....

All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications....

A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon, a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing....

Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Musil....

Disconcerted and enchanted, the listener follows the narrator of Slowness through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the comic....

Games, fantasies, and schemes abound in all the stories, while different characters react in varying ways to the sudden release of erotic impulses....

There are situations in which we fail for a moment to recognize the person we are with, in which the identity of the other is erased while we simultaneously doubt our own....

Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s....

Milan Kundera's brilliant new collection of essays is a passionate defense of art in an era that, he argues, no longer values art or beauty....

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....