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“We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.” Milan Kundera

The first existentialist novelist I was made aware of. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, almost unbearable in its haunting portrayal of sadness and power dynamics, should be read by almost everyone.

“…because were she to die here they would cover her up with a stone, and in the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.”
-The Unbearable Lightness of Being (trans. from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim)

Ave atque vale, Milan Kundera (1 April 1929-11 July 2023), and safe travels.

As a novelist and former academic I still want to keep my hand in in those two areas I used to research (fiction of the 1980s and 90s and political economy), but also try to straddle the gap between the scholarly and the demotic.

So I'm currently working on what I call a "digested read" (or gloss) of 's nonfiction. The first section, on The Art of the Novel (1986) is available to read now on my website: longform.wdclarke.org/kundera-

Any other fans of here?