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ON MILAN KUNDERA'S BOOKSHELF Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1605 / 1615 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Laurence Sterne, 1759-1767 Jacques the Fatalist and his Master Denis Diderot, 1796 Anna Karenina Leo N. Tolstoy, 1877 The Castle Franz Kafka, 1926P The Sleepwalkers: A Trilogy Hermann Broch, 1931-1932 The Death of Virgil Hermann Broch, 1945	BOOKS BY MILAN KUNDERA: The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1984 (novels in Czech) Interweaves story and dream, past and present, and philosophy and poetry in the sardonic and erotic tale of two couples - Tomas and Teresa, and Sabina and her Swiss lover, Gerhart.	WHAT TO READ AFTER THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING? 'CONTES PHILOSOPHIQUES' Candide Voltaire, 1759 The Baron in the Trees Italo Calvino, 1957 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert M. Pirsig, 1974 The Laws Connie Palmen, 1991 EASTERN-BLOC COMMUNISM, KAFKA STYLE The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov, 1967P [Melinda es Dragomán] György Konrád, 1991 Love and Garbage Ivan Klíma, 1988 (samizdat 1987) Public Secret Bernlef (J.), 1987 LOVE IN TOTALITARIAN TIMES Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell, 1949 [Zoeken naar Eileen W.] Leon de Winter, 1981 The Pickup Nadine Gordimer, 2001
	The Joke 1967 A novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried.
	Life is Elsewhere 1974 A classic epic of adolescence, set against the backdrop of the communist revolution.
	The Book of Laughter and Forgetting 1980 Kundera whirls through comedy and tragedy towards his central question: how does a person, any person, live today? In constructing his answer, he writes of politics, sex, literature, modern man's alienation - and of their antidotes: laughter and forgetting.
	Slowness 1995 Readers are taken through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated by more than 200 years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the ridiculous.
	Identity 1997 A moment of confusion sets in motion a complex chain of events which crosses and recrosses the divide between fantasy and reality.
	Ignorance 2001 A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their Czech homeland in the early 1990s after twenty years of self-imposed exile. Will they manage to pick up the thread of their strange love story, interrupted by the tides of history?
	Immortality 1990 Through the actions of three characters – Agnes, her husband, and her sister – and others in contemporary France and Weimar Germany, the author reflects on the image of the individual, the Western cult of sentiment, and the meaning of love.
	Laughable Loves 1963 This collection contains stories about the sport of love – Don Juanism, ageing, male and female power and seductions undertaken for all kinds of intriguing motives.
	The Farewell Waltz 1973 Klima, a celebrated jazz trumpeter, receives a phone call announcing that a young nurse with whom he spent a brief night at a fertility spa is pregnant. She has decided he is the father and so begins a comedy which, during five madcap days, unfolds with ever-increasing speed.
	Jacques and His Master: An Homage to Diderot in Three Acts 1981 Theatrical adaptation of Diderot's eighteenth-century novel Jacques le Fataliste.
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