Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera is a Czech-born French writer known for his novels exploring themes of love, politics, and identity, most notably 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being'.


"Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with."
Milan Kundera
"As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about."
Milan Kundera
"It is a tragicomic fact that our proper upbringing has become an ally of the secret police. (...) The 'Tell the truth!' imperative drummed into us so automatically that we feel ashamed of lying even to a secret policeman."
Milan Kundera