89 Words Followed by a Dream
60.00 ₾89 Words Followed by a Dream by Milan Kundera (Faber) — Kundera’s final work, completed shortly before his death in 2023: short prose pieces gathered around the question of what it means to be at the end of a long life and a long literary career, to look back at the words you have written and find them both yours and not yours. As concentrated and as precisely formed as everything he wrote. The capstone of one of literature’s great bodies of work. Published by Faber & Faber.
Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead
26.00 ₾Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead by Milan Kundera (Faber) — a young man visits his dying elderly father and finds himself unable to say what needs to be said before time runs out. Among the most painful and most perfectly formed things Kundera ever wrote: a meditation on time, parenthood, and the words that remain unsaid between people who love each other. Part of the Faber Stories series. Published by Faber & Faber.
The Festival of Insignificance
46.00 ₾The Festival of Insignificance by Milan Kundera (Faber) — four old friends meet in a Paris park, and in their conversation Kundera finds the vehicle for a final meditation on the questions that have occupied him for six decades: the nature of art, the comedy of existence, the possibility that what we think matters does not, and that this might be not a tragedy but a liberation. Barely a hundred and twenty pages — the perfect capstone to one of the great bodies of work in twentieth-century literature. Published by Faber & Faber.
Laughable Loves
46.00 ₾Laughable Loves by Milan Kundera (Faber) — seven stories set in 1960s Czechoslovakia, in which men and women navigate the gap between public performance and private reality with a mixture of weariness, ingenuity, and erotic energy. The early short fiction in which Kundera’s characteristic voice first becomes fully itself: philosophical intelligence, erotic comedy, and Central European melancholy in perfect balance. The ideal introduction to his work. Published by Faber & Faber.
Life Is Elsewhere
46.00 ₾Life Is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera (Faber) — Jaromil, a poet in Communist Czechoslovakia, is the product of a mother so completely invested in his genius that she has made him incapable of any relationship not mediated by her approval. One of Kundera’s most psychologically acute novels — a portrait of artistic narcissism whose implications extend far beyond its historical setting. Underrated even among Kundera devotees. Essential reading. Published by Faber & Faber.
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
46.00 ₾The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera (Faber) — seven stories that are also one story, linked by the themes of memory and forgetting, political power, and the laughter that both subverts and accompanies it. Written after Kundera was stripped of his Czech citizenship and forced into exile — simultaneously a private grief and a political act, an insistence that the things totalitarianism destroys (memory, complexity, the individual voice) matter. Published by Faber & Faber.
The Joke
46.00 ₾The Joke by Milan Kundera (Faber) — a sardonic postcard written in 1948 ends Ludvík’s university career and his future; fifteen years later, his revenge arrives too late to mean what he intended. Kundera’s first novel, suppressed after the Soviet invasion, in which his characteristic themes first find full expression: the relationship between the personal and the political, between love and power, between memory and the self that remembers. Published by Faber & Faber.
Immortality
46.00 ₾Immortality by Milan Kundera (Faber) — Kundera’s most ambitious novel: a meditation on fame, identity, and what it means to be a person in a world saturated with images of people that outlast, distort, and ultimately replace the originals. Formally extraordinary — Kundera appears as a character, converses with his creations, and moves between Paris and nineteenth-century Germany with complete confidence. The summit of his novelistic achievement. Published by Faber & Faber.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
46.00 ₾The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (Faber) — Tomas and Tereza in the shadow of the Prague Spring: a love story that becomes a sustained philosophical inquiry into whether life, happening only once and therefore never rehearsed or corrected, is unbearably light or unbearably heavy. Kundera’s narrating voice — ironic, erudite, playfully direct — was something genuinely new in world fiction. The essential starting point for his extraordinary body of work. Published by Faber & Faber.
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