Books by Bilal Ramadan
Friday, July 14, 2023 02:00 AM
“Milan Kundera And the world is a trap” is a book prepared by the writer and translator Amin Saleh, recommended to the audience of world literature readers, which coincides with the death of the French writer and philosopher of Czech origin. A candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Accomplished writer and translator Amin Saleh presents a comprehensive essay on Milan Kundera in “Milan Kundera and the World as Shirk” as he takes the reader through extensive readings of Kundera’s biography, works and opinions, to his essays. And the most important conversations with him.
Milan Kundera is one of Europe’s most important and popular contemporary writers, and one of the few who has achieved wide international recognition as he has become a global literary icon. In the eighties of the last century, Eastern European literature was put on the world literary map with its new and bold texts and call for inner freedom.
He is seen as an important writer and thinker in his country, and he is considered one of the most influential writers on contemporary Czech novelists and the rest of the world. Every book he publishes is considered a major cultural phenomenon, and all of his contributions to public cultural and political conversations arouse interest, controversy, and lively debate.
It is noteworthy that Milan Kundera was born on April 1, 1929 to a father and mother from the Czech Republic. His father, Ludwig Kundera, was a musicologist and president of the Jankic University of Arts and Music in Brno. Milan Kundera learned to play the piano from his father and later studied musicology, cinema and literature. He graduated in 1952. Assistant Professor and Lecturer at the Film College at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts. During his studies, he published poems, essays, plays, etc. and joined the editorial department of several literary magazines.
Milan Kundera joined the Communist Party in 1948, and he and writer Jean Travolga were expelled in 1950, then returned to the party in 1956, then split again in 1970.
Milan Kundera published his first collection of poetry in 1953, but it did not receive enough attention, and Kundera did not become known as an important writer until 1963, after he published his first collection of funny love stories.
After the Soviet Union entered Czechoslovakia and his involvement in the so-called Prague Spring, Milan Kundera lost his job in 1968. His books were banned from circulation for five years, forcing him to emigrate to France in 1975. He worked as an assistant. Professor at the University of Rennes in Brittany (France).Laugh and forget“.
Under the weight of these circumstances and the developments in his life, Kundera wrote his famous novel “Why the Unbearable Light Matter”, which made him a well-known international writer, because of its philosophical reflections, which came under Nietzsche’s idea of eternal return. And in 1995 Kundera decided to make French his vernacular.Literature through his novel “Slowly”.
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