Pondělíček’s books were quite popular in Czechoslovakia, selling many editions and tens of thousands of copies.” You write that Kundera was almost cripplingly hesitant to make decisions and trace that back in part to his childhood, to his tutelage under his father, a musicologist and pianist who demanded perfection. Diane Johnson’s most recent book is a ­memoir, “Flyover Lives.” A version of this article appears in print on , Page 9 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: Dandies and Flâneurs . The Franco-Czech novelist and critic Milan Kundera was born in Brno and has lived in France, his second homeland, since 1975. He is the author of the novels The Joke, Farewell Waltz, Life Is Elsewhere, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and the short-story collection Laughable Loves—all originally written in Czech. Milan Kundera, Aaron Asher. Kundera initially intended to call this novel The Lyrical Age. The lyrical age, according to Kundera, is youth, and this novel, above all, is an epic of adolescence; an ironic epic that tenderly erodes sacrosanct values: childhood, motherhood, revolution, and even poetry. Jaromil is in fact a poet. Slowness. Milan Kundera. HarperCollinsPublishers, 1996 - France - 156 pages. After the gravity of The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Immortality, Slowness comes as a surprise: it is certainly Kundera's lightest novel, a divertimento, an opera buffa, with, as the author himself says, "not a single serious word in it"; then, too, it is the Save. Milan Kundera, a Czech-born writer who drew attention to the cultural and political oppression of Central Europe under Communist rule, penning darkly comic novels that mixed philosophical Kundera won accolades for depicting themes and characters that floated between the mundane reality of everyday life and the lofty world of ideas. Czech-born novelist Milan Kundera, who satirised totalitarian regimes and mixed dark irony with philosophical musings to explore the human condition, has died, a library he worked with said on July 12. M ilan Kundera would often repeat to me that life is “a conspiracy of coincidences”. In his case, fate had seen him born on 1 April, and he was convinced that this had had “a profound .

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