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Immortality
- By: Milan Kundera, Peter Kussi
- Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
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Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agnes becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that character springs a novel, a gesture of the imagination that both embodies and articulates Milan Kundera's supreme mastery of the novel and its purpose: to explore thoroughly the great themes of existence.
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Breathtakingly beautiful
- By Viktória on 10-12-16
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Immortality
- Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 06-12-12
- Language: English
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
- By: Milan Kundera, Aaron Asher
- Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analysed and experienced.
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Disturbing! Contains sexualing children!
- By Alexandraki Katerina on 01-11-16
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
- Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 06-09-12
- Language: English
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- By: Milan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim
- Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
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A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon, a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals - while her other lover, earnest, faithful, and good, stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities.
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Strives to be deep
- By Ant on 30-07-13
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 07-09-12
- Language: English
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The Joke
- By: Milan Kundera, Aaron Asher
- Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
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All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now, a quarter century after The Joke was first published and several years after the collapse of the Soviet-imposed Czechoslovak regime, it becomes easier to put such implications into perspective in favour of valuing the book (and all Kundera's work) as what it truly is: great, stirring literature that sheds new light on the eternal themes of human existence.
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Excellently written, gives nod to male chauvinism
- By Amazon Customer on 04-12-20
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The Joke
- Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 06-12-12
- Language: English
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Farewell Waltz
- By: Milan Kundera, Aaron Asher
- Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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In this dark farce of a novel, set in an old-fashioned Central European spa town, eight characters are swept up in an accelerating dance. Perhaps the most brilliantly plotted and entertaining of Milan Kundera's novels, Farewell Waltz poses the most serious questions with a blasphemous lightness that makes us see that the modern world has deprived us even of the right to tragedy. Written in Bohemia in 1969-70, this book was first published in 1976. This beautiful new translation, made from the French text prepared by the novelist himself, fully reflects his own tone and intentions.
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?Satire
- By Caitlin on 03-02-23
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Farewell Waltz
- Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 21-03-13
- Language: English
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Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí
- By: Milan Kundera
- Narrated by: Jiří Bartoška
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
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Co zbylo z umírajících lidí v Kambodži? Jedna velká fotografie americké herečky, která drží v náručí žluté dítě. Co zbylo z Tomáše? Nápis: Chtěl království Boží na zemi. Co zbylo z Beethovena? Zamračený muž s nepravděpodobnou hřívou, který pronáší temným hlasem: "Es muss sein!" Co zbylo z Franze? Nápis: Po dlouhém bloudění návrat. A tak dál a tak dál. Dříve než budeme zapomenuti, budeme proměněni v kýč. Kýč je přestupní stanice mezi bytím a zapomenutím.
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The best book from Czech author I have ever read!
- By Anonymous User on 17-01-24
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Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí
- Narrated by: Jiří Bartoška
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 06-01-20
- Language: Czech
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Life Is Elsewhere
- By: Milan Kundera, Aaron Asher
- Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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A budding poet and his adoring mother are the central characters of this intriguing early novel by Milan Kundera. He takes us through the young man's fantasies and love affairs in a characteristic tour de force, alive with wit, eroticism and ideas.
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Mythical and ranges over many worlds
- By Patrick on 26-09-16
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Life Is Elsewhere
- Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 21-03-13
- Language: English
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Risibles amours
- By: Milan Kundera
- Narrated by: Serge Bagdassarian
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
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"Suppose que tu rencontres un fou qui affirme qu'il est un poisson et que nous sommes tous des poissons. Vas-tu te disputer avec lui ? Vas-tu te déshabiller devant lui pour lui montrer que tu n'as pas de nageoires ? Vas-tu lui dire en face ce que tu penses ?" Son frère se taisait, et Édouard poursuivit : "Si tu ne lui disais que la vérité, que ce que tu penses vraiment de lui, ça voudrait dire que tu consens à avoir une discussion sérieuse avec un fou et que tu es toi-même fou.
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Risibles amours
- Narrated by: Serge Bagdassarian
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 08-03-24
- Language: French
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Laughable Loves
- By: Milan Kundera, Suzanne Rappaport
- Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
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Milan Kundera is a master of graceful illusion and illuminating surprise. In one of these stories a young man and his girlfriend pretend that she is a stranger he picked up on the road - only to become strangers to each other in reality as their game proceeds. In another a teacher fakes piety in order to seduce a devout girl, then jilts her and yearns for God. In yet another girls wait in bars, on beaches and on station platforms for the same lover, a middle-aged Don Juan who has gone home to his wife.
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Laughable Loves
- Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 06-12-12
- Language: English
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Ignorance
- By: Milan Kundera, Linda Asher
- Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
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Irena and Josef meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned 20 years earlier. Will they manage to pick up the thread of their strange love story, interrupted almost as soon as it began and then lost in the tides of history? The truth is that after such a long absence 'their memories no longer match'.
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Ignorance
- Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 21-02-13
- Language: English
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Slowness
- By: Milan Kundera, Linda Asher
- Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
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Milan Kundera's lightest novel, a divertimento, an opera buffa, Slowness is also the first of this author's fictional works to have been written in French. Disconcerted and enchanted, the listener follows the narrator of Slowness through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated by more than 200 years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the comic.
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Irony and humour hand in hand
- By Yansta on 03-08-24
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Slowness
- Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 21-02-13
- Language: English
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The Festival of Insignificance
- By: Milan Kundera, Linda Asher
- Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
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Casting light on the most serious of problems and at the same time saying not one serious sentence; being fascinated by the reality of the contemporary world and at the same time completely avoiding realism - that's The Festival of Insignificance. Listeners who know Kundera's earlier books know that the wish to incorporate an element of the "unserious" in a novel is not at all unexpected of him.
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The Festival of Insignificance
- Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 18-06-15
- Language: English
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L'insoutenable légèreté de l'être
- By: Milan Kundera, François Kérel - traducteur
- Narrated by: Stéphane Varupenne
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
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Qu'est-il resté des agonisants du Cambodge ? Une grande photo de la star américaine tenant dans ses bras un enfant jaune. Qu'est-il resté de Tomas ? Une inscription : Il voulait le Royaume de Dieu sur la terre. Qu'est-il resté de Beethoven ? Un homme morose à l'invraisemblable crinière, qui prononce d'une voix sombre : "Es muss sein!" Qu'est-il resté de Franz ? Une inscription : Après un long égarement, le retour. Et ainsi de suite, et ainsi de suite. Avant d'être oubliés, nous serons changés en kitsch. Le kitsch, c'est la station de correspondance entre l'être et l'oubli."
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L'insoutenable légèreté de l'être
- Narrated by: Stéphane Varupenne
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 15-07-23
- Language: French
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The Curtain
- By: Milan Kundera, Linda Asher
- Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
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In this thought-provoking, endlessly enlightening and entertaining essay on the art of the novel, renowned author Milan Kundera suggests that 'the curtain' represents a ready-made perception of the world that each of us has - a pre-interpreted world. The job of the novelist, he argues, is to rip through the curtain and reveal what it hides. Here an incomparable literary artist cleverly sketches out his personal view of the history and value of the novel in Western civilization.
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The Curtain
- Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 20-06-13
- Language: English
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The Art of the Novel
- By: Milan Kundera
- Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
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Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy and Musil. He is especially penetrating on Hermann Broch, and his exploration of the world of Kafka's novels vividly reveals the comic terror of Kafka's bureaucratized universe. Kundera's discussion of his own work includes his views on the role of historical events in fiction, the meaning of action and the creation of character in the postpsychological novel.
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The Art of the Novel
- Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 20-06-13
- Language: English
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Identity
- By: Milan Kundera, Linda Asher
- Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie
- Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
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There are situations in which we fail for a moment to recognise the person we are with, in which the identity of the other is erased while we simultaneously doubt our own. This also happens with couples - indeed, above all with couples, because lovers fear more than anything else 'losing sight' of the loved one. With stunning artfulness in expanding and playing variations on the meaningful moment, Milan Kundera has made this situation - and the vague sense of panic it inspires - the very fabric of this novel.
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Identity
- Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie
- Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 21-02-13
- Language: English
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Encounter
- By: Milan Kundera
- Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
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Milan Kundera's brilliant collection of essays is a passionate defence of art in an era that, he argues, no longer values art or beauty. With the same dazzling mix of emotion and ideas that characterises his best-selling novels, the internationally acclaimed author revisits the artists whose works help us better understand what it means to be human. Elegant, startlingly original, and provocative, Encounter combines many of the author's signature themes with personal reflections and stories.
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Encounter
- Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 26-06-13
- Language: English
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L'insostenibile leggerezza dell'essere
- By: Milan Kundera
- Narrated by: Fabrizio Bentivoglio
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
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Pietra miliare della letteratura del Novecento, il romanzo mette in scena un perfetto quadrilatero amoroso entro cui le storie dei protagonisti s'intrecciano con le grandi domande della vita, come quelle sul valore delle scelte individuali, sul rapporto tra pesantezza e leggerezza, libertà e costrizione. Alla fine degli anni Sessanta, tra la Primavera praghese e l'invasione sovietica, la giovane Tereza e il marito Tomáš, la pittrice Sabina e il suo amante Franz, oscillando tra fedeltà e tradimenti, esplorano passioni e vertigini di un mondo che è diventato una trappola.
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L'insostenibile leggerezza dell'essere
- Narrated by: Fabrizio Bentivoglio
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 12-11-15
- Language: Italian
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Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins
- By: Milan Kundera
- Narrated by: Heikko Deutschmann
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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Ein erfolgreicher Arzt und Frauenheld trifft ein unbedarftes Mädchen aus der Provinz - so begegnen sich Tomas und Teresa 1968 in Prag. Er lebt seine amourösen Abenteuer aus, sie sucht bei ihm die eine große Liebe und reagiert verletzt und eifersüchtig. Dennoch werden sie ein Paar. Doch mit dem Ende des Prager Frühlings verändert sich ihr Leben dramatisch.
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Eine tiefgründige Beobachtung des Menschseins
- By Amazon Customer on 06-08-23
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Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins
- Narrated by: Heikko Deutschmann
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 23-02-15
- Language: German
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Testaments Betrayed
- By: Milan Kundera
- Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
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Milan Kundera has established himself as one of the great novelists of our time with such books as The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Immortality and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. In Testaments Betrayed, he proves himself a brilliant defender of the moral rights of the artist and the respect due to a work of art and its creator's wishes. The betrayal of both - often by their most passionate proponents - is the principal theme of this extraordinary work.
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Testaments Betrayed
- Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 18-07-13
- Language: English
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