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Milan Kundera

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The Resume

    (April 1, 1929-July 11, 2023)
    Born in Brno, Czechoslovakia (now Czechia)
    Emigrated to France (1975)
    Wrote novels ‘The Joke’ (1967), ‘The Book of Laughter and Forgetting’ (1979), ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’ (1982), ‘Slowness’ (1990) and ‘Ignorance’ (2000)

Why he might be annoying:

    He said fame made him long for a magic ointment to make him invisible.
    He was expelled from the Communist Party in 1950, readmitted in 1956 and expelled again in 1975.
    He often clashed with fellow Czech dissident, Vaclav Havel.
    His novels are often more concerned with philosophy than plot and character.
    His fame and comfortable life in France made him resented by other Czech writers.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He played the trumpet in cabarets as a teenager.
    He lost his university job for his role in the reformist Prague Spring (1968).
    He was stripped of his Czech citizenship in 1979.
    His writings were banned in his birthplace until the 1990s.
    ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’ was adapted into a successful film directed by Philip Kaufman.
    He said, ‘To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.’

Credit: Georgina


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 92 Votes: 57.61% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 8 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 22 Votes: 31.82% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 11 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 7 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 15 Votes: 53.33% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 10 Votes: 70.0% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 15 Votes: 53.33% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 26 Votes: 65.38% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 25 Votes: 36.00% Annoying