RIP Milan Kundera (1 April 1929, Brno, Czechia – 11 July 2023, Paris, France)

𝐈𝐍 𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐌 𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐀𝐍 𝐊𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐀

“To be mortal is the most basic human experience, and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and behave accordingly. Man doesn’t know how to be mortal. And when he dies, he doesn’t even know how to be dead.” (Quote from “Immortality,” first published in 1988 in Czech as “Nesmrtelnost”, subsequently translated into English in 1991 – Immortality is the last of a trilogy that includes The Book of Laughter and Forgetting and The Unbearable Lightness of Being)

― Milan Kundera, awarded Czech-French writer, author of memorable, internationally widely translated novels (The Joke, Life is Elsewhere, The Farewell Waltz, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Immortality, Slowness, Identity, Ignorance, The Festival of Insignificance)

RIP Milan Kundera (1 April 1929, Brno, Czechia – 11 July 2023, Paris, France)