2023-07-16 16:00:00
Bilal Ramadan wrote Sunday, July 16, 2023 07:00 PM He passed away Milan Kundera.. The French writer and philosopher of Czech origin, leaving a literary legacy that has always occupied the forefront of the best-selling bookshelves, and the most translated books around the world, and despite his disdain for all forms of propaganda, he left knowing that there were two books he published that might threaten his literary legacy.
Throughout his life and with the progress of his literary career, and the emergence of his star in the sky of world literature, Milan Kundera was refusing to write an autobiography regarding his experience and career, and despite his rejection of this type of literature, he learned of the publication of two books dealing with his literary career and his personal life before his death in the four years the last of his life.
Both books are unlicensed. The first is entitled “Milan Kundera: The Life of the Writer” by Jean-Dominique Brier, in which he deals with a little bit of Milan Kundera’s personal life, and the second is the book “Milan Kundera: His Czech Life and Times” by Jan Novak, and this book was described as less Much tact, because its author portrays Milan Kundera as a scoundrel, a “moral relativist” and, at times, a desperate writer, not to mention his take on what he calls the scandals of his past.
However, as mentioned by the foreign media, perhaps the biggest problem lies in what Milan Kundera had previously identified, which is the marginalization of literature and culture in the face of the fragility of his future.
It is noteworthy that Milan Kundera was born on April 1, 1929, to a Czech father and mother. His father, Ludvik Kundera, was a musicologist and president of the Jancik University of Literature and Music in Brno. Milan Kundera learned to play the piano from his father, and later studied musicology, cinema and literature. He graduated in the year 1952 He worked as an assistant professor and lecturer at the Faculty of Cinema at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts. He published poetry, articles and plays during his studies, and joined the editorial department of a number of literary magazines.
Milan Kundera joined the Communist Party in 1948, and he and writer Jean Travolca were dismissed in 1950 due to noticing individual tendencies on them, and then returned in 1956 to the ranks of the party, then separated once more in 1970.
Milan Kundera published his first collection of poetry in 1953, but it did not receive enough attention. Kundera was not known as an important writer until 1963 following publishing his first collection of funny love stories.
Milan Kundera lost his job in 1968 following the Soviet Union entered Czechoslovakia, following his involvement in what was called the Prague Spring. He was forced to immigrate to France in 1975 following his books were banned from circulation for five years. He worked as an assistant professor at the University of Rennes in Brittany (France). He obtained French citizenship in 1981, following applying for this following the Czechoslovak nationality was revoked from him in 1978, as a result of writing the book “Laughter and Forgetting”. Under the weight of these circumstances and developments in his life, Kundera wrote his famous novel “An Unbearable Lightness Object”, which made him a well-known international writer for its philosophical reflections, falling under the idea of Nietzsche’s eternal return. In 1995, Kundera decided to make French the language of his tongue. Literary through his novel “Slowness”.
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