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The best Milan Kundera books

The top 3 according to 36 votes from people: The Unbearable Lightness of Being · Identity · Immortality. (Updated May 11, 2022.)

From "The Joke" to "The Unbearable Lightness of Being": the Kundera novels and essays that Goodreads readers and reading guides rank highest.

Damien Gautier · · 14 items · 36 votes · 0 comments

Automatically translated (original in Français). See the original

Top 14

  1. 1

    The Unbearable Lightness of Being

    His most-read book: Tomas, Tereza and the Prague Spring.

    ▲ 4 ▼ 0

    4
  2. 2

    Identity

    A couple who no longer recognise each other.

    ▲ 4 ▼ 0

    4
  3. 3

    Immortality

    A woman's gesture that gives birth to a novel.

    ▲ 4 ▼ 1

    3
  4. 4

    The Festival of Insignificance

    His last novel.

    ▲ 3 ▼ 0

    3
  5. 5

    Ignorance

    The best of his novels written in French.

    ▲ 3 ▼ 1

    2
  6. 6

    The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

    Seven tales about memory and forgetting.

    ▲ 2 ▼ 0

    2
  7. 7

    The Joke

    His first novel: a postcard that ruins a life.

    ▲ 2 ▼ 0

    2
  8. 8

    Life Is Elsewhere

    Portrait of a young poet.

    ▲ 2 ▼ 1

    1
  9. 9

    Laughable Loves

    Stories about the games of love.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  10. 10

    The Farewell Party

    A black comedy in a spa town.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  11. 11

    The Art of the Novel

    His essay on the European novel.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 1

    0
  12. 12

    Testaments Betrayed

    Essays on Kafka, Stravinsky and Janáček.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 1

    0
  13. 13

    The Curtain

    Another essay on the art of the novel.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 0

    0
  14. 14

    Slowness

    His first novel written in French.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 2

    -1

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