Along with the likes of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Brodsky, and fellow Czech playwright-turned-politician-turned-president Vaclav Havel, Kundera was seen by the West -- and the democratic East, including India -- as a star dissident writer, his novels coming across as denouements against the ‘closed societies’ of the Soviet Empire during the last lap of the Cold War. The Literature Nobel was thought to be all but on his mantelpiece.
FOUR CHARACTERS UNDER TWO TYRANNIES - The New York Times
A tribute to the genius of writer Milan Kundera (1929-2023) can only only be paid by going over and beyond his written words
Milan Kundera: Czech writer dies aged 94 – DW – 07/12/2023
Milan Kundera, author, 1929-2023
Milan Kundera (1929 - 2023) Writer - 3 Quarks Daily
A comment on the life and death of Czech-French novelist Milan Kundera ( 1929-2023) - World Socialist Web Site
Rappler on X: Czech-born writer Milan Kundera, author of the novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being who lived nearly five decades in Paris, has died at the age of 94. The Moravian
A comment on the life and death of Czech-French novelist Milan Kundera ( 1929-2023) - World Socialist Web Site
A comment on the life and death of Czech-French novelist Milan Kundera ( 1929-2023) - World Socialist Web Site
Milan Kundera, existential novelist, has died
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: The Unbearable Lightness of Milan Kundera ( 1929-2023)
Milan Kundera's 'remarkable' work explored oppression, inhumanity – and the absurdity of being human