Human life is bounded by two chasms: fanaticism on one side, absolute skepticism on the other.
Milan Kundera · Interview with Philip Roth (1980)
Milan Kundera: Czech-French novelist of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, 1929 to 2023.
Milan Kundera · Interview with Philip Roth (1980)
Milan Kundera · The narrator on Franz and Sabina, whose love rests on the idea of the Grand March.
Milan Kundera · The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1980)
Milan Kundera · The source reads: “Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.” · The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), pt. III
Milan Kundera · The source reads: “The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the first European novel.” · Interview with Philip Roth (1980)
Milan Kundera · Tomas, waking from a dream of his ideal woman, recalling the myth in Plato's Symposium that people were once hermaphrodites split in two and the halves now wander the world seeking each other; the English is Michael Henry Heim's 1984 translation.
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