Milan Kundera

Na frantsuzskom jazyke."Nevynosimaja legkost bytija" Milana Kundery - odna iz zhemchuzhin prozy XX veka. Istorija zhizni dvukh supruzheskikh par razvorachivaetsja v Prage, v 60-kh godakh. Avtor vsled za soboj vedet chitatelja po slozhnym, zaputannym labirintam otnoshenij muzhchiny i zhenschiny, gde smeshalos i pereplelos ikh proshloe i nastojaschee, intimnoe i obschestvennoe, fantazii i realnost. V knige mnogo vsego - politiki, filosofii, istorii, chelovecheskikh otnoshenij, no bolshe vsego v nej ljubvi. Ne vsegda legkost javljaetsja blagom, a tjazhest, skolko by problem ona ni prinosila, pridaet nashej zhizni napolnennost i smysl. Kakoj zhe vybor sdelajut geroi v nadezhde nakonets obresti schaste?

Ludvik Jahn, joven estudiante universitario y activo miembro del Partido Comunista checo, env a a una compa era de clase una postal en la que se burla del optimismo ideol gico imperante. La broma no les hace la menor gracia a los dirigentes universitarios y, tras un juicio sumario, expulsan a Ludvik de la universidad y del Partido. Pero, parad jicamente, al caer en desgracia, se abre para Ludvik un mundo a n desconocido. Atrapado entre dos amores, el de Lucie, tierno y desesperado, y el de Helena, apasionado y c nico, Ludvik va, sin embargo, de tropiezo en tropiezo, transformando su vida en un c mulo de situaciones cada cual m s grotesca y risible.Con el paso del tiempo, la vida de Ludvik se convertir en una enorme broma pesada: ya no podr culpar al destino, porque ya no puede sino culparse a s mismo.

Milan Kundera prinadlezhit k chislu samykh populjarnykh pisatelej sovremennosti. Ego knigi bukvalno zavorazhivajut chitatelja izyskannostju stilja, umelym postroeniem sjuzheta, nakalom chuvstv u geroev. Kazhdoe novoe proizvedenie pisatelja popolnjaet rjad bestsellerov intellektualnoj prozy. Druzhba, jumor, umenie ponimat i soperezhivat, beskonechnaja khrupkost i neutomimoe uporstvo zhizni - v pozdnem romane Milana Kundery predskazuemo torzhestvuet neznachitelnost, no takzhe proslavljajutsja ochen znachitelnye veschi, bez kotorykh nasha "malenkaja" zhizn nevoobrazima i nevozmozhna. I zdes net ni odnoj sereznoj frazy - eto ochen vazhnoe preduprezhdenie, no vy vse-taki emu ne verte.Pjat prichin kupit1. Avtor s mirovym imenem. Milan Kundera - eto izvestnyj cheshskij pisatel, proslavivshijsja svoimi proizvedenijami na filosofskie i politicheskie temy.2. Uznajte, o chem na samom dele govorjat muzhchiny. Kniga povestvuet o povsednevnykh razgovorakh chetverykh muzhchin, zhivuschikh v Parizhe. Kazhdomu personazhu posvjaschena otdelnaja glava.3. Personazhi, v kotorye legko poverit. Chetyre glavnykh geroja predstavljajut raznye vzgljady na zhizn i obschestvo, sporjat i soglashajutsja drug s drugom, govorjat obo vsem i ni o chem odnovremenno.4. Shirokij krug tem. Avtor zatragivaet voprosy prirody realnosti, roli iskusstva v obschestve, smysla ljubvi i vlijanija tekhnologij na otnoshenija mezhdu ljudmi.5. Dlja ljubitelej filosofii. Kniga podojdet vsem interesujuschimsja filosofskoj literaturoj, poklonnikam tvorchestva Kundery i vsem, kto ischet vdumchivoe i pri etom uvlekatelnoe chtenie.

Milan Kundera - odin iz samykh populjarnykh pisatelej sovremennosti; vse ego proizvedenija - neuvjadajuschie bestsellery intellektualnoj prozy. "Nespeshnost" i "Podlinnost" - dva romana Kundery vtoroj poloviny 1990-kh, napisannye po-frantsuzski, dve nespeshnye prikhotlivye istorii o vremeni i tempe zhizni, o ljubvi, doverii, samoobmane i starenii.Pjat prichin kupit1. Milan Kundera - pisatel, izvestnyj svoim unikalnym stilem, v kotorom organichno sochetajutsja filosofskie mysli i uvlekatelnaja proza. On poluchil mnozhestvo nagrad, v tom chisle premiju Frantsa Kafki.2. V romane perepletajutsja dve istorii, dejstvie odnoj iz kotorykh proiskhodit v XVIII veke, a drugoj - v nashi dni. Avtor podnimaet temy ljubvi, lichnosti i smysla zhizni.3. Personazhi, za kotorymi interesno nabljudat. Geroi romana koloritny, kazhdyj so svoimi sobstvennymi zhelanijami, strakhami i ubezhdenijami.4. "Nespeshnost. Podlinnost" zatragivaet filosofskie temy - prirodu vremeni, poisk smysla suschestvovanija i roli lichnosti v istorii.5. Dlja vdumchivogo chitatelja. Roman ponravitsja chitateljam, kotorye ljubjat literaturu, dajuschuju pischu dlja razmyshlenija ob okruzhajuschem nas mire.

Fransua Rable, Salman Rushdi i Frants Kafka, Ljudvig van Betkhoven i Arnold Shjonberg, Leosh Janachek i Igor Stravinskij, Lev Tolstoj i Ernest Kheminguej, Deni Didro, Migel de Servantes, Vitold Gombrovich, Tomas Mann, Robert Muzil, Uiljam Folkner... Esse odnogo iz samykh populjarnykh pisatelej sovremennosti Milana Kundery "Narushennye zaveschanija" - strastnaja apologija romana, istorija i analiz etogo zhanra, vpisannye v blistatelno emkuju i krasochnuju kartinu razvitija literatury i muzyki. V "Narushennykh zaveschanijakh" vnjatno zvuchit blagorodnyj golos v zaschitu velikolepnykh tvortsov, kotorye uzhe ne mogut zaschitit sebja i svoi proizvedenija sami i poroj posmertno stanovjatsja zhertvami dobrozhelatelnykh poklonnikov - kritikov, perevodchikov i dazhe blizkikh druzej. Mestami provokatsionnaja, neizmenno pronitsatelnaja i zamechatelno elegantnaja, eta kniga raspakhivaet pered nami glubiny tvorchestva i rasshirjaet granitsy nashego chitatelskogo vosprijatija.Pjat prichin kupit1. "Narushennye zaveschanija" issledujut otvetstvennost i eticheskie soobrazhenija, kotorymi khudozhnik dolzhen rukovodstvovatsja v svoej rabote. Kniga zastavit vas zadumatsja o roli khudozhnika v obschestve.2. Avtor issleduet slozhnye vzaimootnoshenija mezhdu avtorami i ikh literaturnymi personazhami, provodja i odnovremenno stiraja granitsy mezhdu realnostju i vymyslom.3. Kniga predlagaet izuchit tvorchestvo tsentralnoevropejskikh pisatelej, takikh kak Kafka, Brokh i Muzil, i ikh vlijanie na mirovuju literaturnuju traditsiju.4. Milan Kundera predlagaet soderzhatelnoe obsuzhdenie problem i vazhnosti khudozhestvennogo perevoda. Razmyshlenija avtora o tonkosti etogo protsessa pridutsja po dushe chitateljam, interesujuschimsja lingvistikoj.5. Eta rabota brosit vyzov vashim predstavlenijam o literature i tvorcheskom protsesse. "Narushennye zaveschanija" - otlichnyj vybor dlja vsekh, kto khochet pogruzitsja v diskussiju o prirode iskusstva.

Vozvraschenie - odin iz osnovnykh sjuzhetov mirovoj literatury, i vsjakaja odisseja razvivaetsja predskazuemo... vprochem, ne vsegda. Geroi romana odnogo iz krupnejshikh pisatelej sovremennosti Milana Kundery "Nevedenie" vozvraschajutsja v Chekhiju posle emigratsii - posle mnogikh let tjagot, schastja, poter, kompromissov, novykh perezhivanij i vospominanij, kotorye nepostizhimy i ne interesny nikomu na rodine. Kak rabotaet pamjat? Iz chego strojatsja nadezhdy? Chto takoe podlinnaja chestnost? Kto vozvraschaetsja k Penelope i znaet li ona cheloveka, kotoryj k nej vernulsja? Te, kto uekhal; te, kto povstrechalsja im v puti; te, kto ostalsja, - Kundera vgljadyvaetsja v chelovecheskie sudby s besprimernoj pronitsatelnostju i talantom k sochuvstvennomu ponimaniju.Pjat prichin kupit knigu1. Milan Kundera - odin iz samykh vydajuschikhsja pisatelej KHKh veka, i "Nevedenie" schitaetsja odnim iz ego samykh silnykh i trogatelnykh proizvedenij.2. Glubokoe issledovanie tem, svjazannykh s pamjatju, identichnostju i poterej. Kniga issleduet slozhnye vzaimootnoshenija mezhdu pamjatju i lichnostju, zabveniem i psikhologicheskim sostojaniem cheloveka.3. Opyt razlichnykh kultur. Kniga rasskazyvaet o razlichijakh mezhdu cheshskim i frantsuzskim obschestvami i podnimaet vopros o tsene, kotoruju platit multikulturnoe obschestvo za svoe edinstvo.4. Filosofskie mysli. Roman zatragivaet slozhnye filosofskie idei i kontseptsii, predlagaja chitateljam vdumchivo razmyshljat nad postavlennymi avtoram voprosami.5. Vzgljad na zhizn emigranta. "Nevedenie" rassmatrivaet lichnyj opyt migratsii, issleduja emotsionalnye i psikhologicheskie problemy, s kotorymi stalkivajutsja pokidajuschie svoju rodinu ljudi

Ludvik Jahn, joven estudiante universitario y activo miembro del Partido Comunista checo, envia a una companera de clase una postal en la que se burla del optimismo ideologico imperante. Lo denuncian y es expulsado de la universidad y del partido, y al caer en desgracia se abre ante el un infierno. Atrapado entre dos amores, el de Lucie, tierno y desesperado, y el de Helena, apasionado y cinico, Ludvik vivira un cumulo de situaciones a cual mas grotesca. Sin embargo, pese a que su vida parece una broma pesada, ya no podra culpar al destino. Novela. La broma es considerada como una de las mas importantes creaciones literarias de Kundera. Cuando se publico por primera vez, en los anos sesenta, el libro vendio mas de 120 mil ejemplares en tres dias y fue bautizado como "la Biblia de la contrarrevolucion."

Mientras Tamina, una joven viuda en el exilio, quiere recuperar sus diarios ntimos para reconstruir con ellos sus cada vez m s vagos recuerdos de su vida matrimonial, Mirek, en Bohemia, trata, en cambio, de recobrar unas antiguas cartas de amor para borrar parte de su pasado. Como dice el propio autor, es una novela sobre Tamina y, en el momento en el que Tamina desaparece de la escena, es una novela para Tamina. Ella es el personaje principal y el principal espectador y todas las dem s historias son variaciones de su historia y se re nen en su vida como en un espejo .

"Slender but weighty. . . . What is moving about this novel is its embrace of what has always driven Kundera, the delicate state of living between being and nothingness."-- Boston GlobeFrom the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, an entertaining and enchanting novel--"a fitting capstone on an extraordinary career." (Slate)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. Readers who know Milan 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. In Immortality, Goethe and Hemingway stroll through several chapters together talking and laughing. And in Slowness, Vera, the author's wife, says to her husband: "you've often told me you meant to write a book one day that would have not a single serious word in it...I warn you: watch out. Your enemies are lying in wait."Kundera is finally and fully realizing his old aesthetic dream in this novel that we could easily view as a summation of his whole work. A strange sort of summation. Strange sort of epilogue. Strange sort of laughter, inspired by our time, which is comical because it has lost all sense of humor. What more can we say? Nothing. Just read.

A provocative and rousing essay collection from one of Europe's greatest writers.The people of Central Europe cannot be separated from European history; they cannot exist outside it; but they represent the wrong side of this history; they are its victims and outsiders.In a moment of historic peril and uncertainty in mainland Europe, Milan Kundera makes the case for Central Europe as the nucleus of European values and as a lightning rod for its potential dangers.For the countries that make up this region where democracy is under continued threat from Russian oppression, language and culture play an active role in affirming national identity. And each of these countries - Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia - has been historically overlooked by the major powers of Western Europe. But Kundera cautions that this blindness puts Europe's cultural and political independence at risk, a warning that feels increasingly relevant to our current moment, and our future.

"We should welcome the context Kundera gives for the struggles between Russia and Europe, and the plight of those caught between them. His defense of small languages, small cultures, and small nations feels pressing."--Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine"Kundera focuses on the relationship of Europe's central 'small nations' like Czechoslovakia and Ukraine to Western culture and argues that their cultural identities were increasingly threatened."--New York Book Review A short collection of brilliant early essays that offers a fascinating context for Milan Kundera's subsequent career and holds a mirror to much recent European history. It is also remarkably prescient with regard to Russia's current aggression in Ukraine and its threat to the rest of Europe.Milan Kundera's early nonfiction work feels especially resonant in our own time. In these pieces, Kundera pleads the case of the "small nations" of Europe who, by culture, are Western with deep roots in Europe, despite Russia imposing its own Communist political regimes in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Ukraine, and elsewhere. Kundera warns that the real tragedy here is not Russia but Europe, whose own identity and culture are directly challenged and threatened in a way that could lead to their destruction. He is sounding the alarm, which chimes loud and clear in our own twenty-first century.The 1983 essay translated by Edmund White ("The Tragedy of Central Europe"), and the 1967 lecture delivered to the Czech Writers' Union in the middle of the Prague Spring by the young Milan Kundera ("Literature and the Small Nations"), translated for the first time by Linda Asher, are both written in a voice that is at once personal, vehement, and anguished. Here, Kundera appears already as one of our great European writers and truly our contemporary. Each piece is prefaced by a short presentation by French historian Pierre Nora and Czech-born French political scientist Jacques Rupnik.

Milan Kundera prinadlezhit k chislu samykh populjarnykh pisatelej sovremennosti. Ego knigi bukvalno zavorazhivajut chitatelja izyskannostju stilja, umelym postroeniem sjuzheta, nakalom chuvstv u geroev. Kazhdoe novoe proizvedenie pisatelja popolnjaet rjad bestsellerov intellektualnoj prozy. "Iskusstvo romana" - eto sobranie semi tekstov, v kotorykh proslavlennyj avtor opisyvaet svoju lichnuju kontseptsiju evropejskoj literatury. Zdes nashlos mesto dlja samykh raznykh pisatelej, tvorchestvo kotorykh stalo osnovoj "lichnoj istorii romana" Milana Kundery: eto Rable, Servantes, Stern, Didro, Flober, Tolstoj, Muzil, Kafka i mnogie drugie.

Milan Kundera prinadlezhit k chislu samykh populjarnykh pisatelej sovremennosti. Ego knigi bukvalno zavorazhivajut chitatelja izyskannostju stilja, umelym postroeniem sjuzheta, nakalom chuvstv u geroev. Kazhdoe novoe proizvedenie pisatelja popolnjaet rjad bestsellerov intellektualnoj prozy. "Shutka" - pervyj roman Milana Kundery, napisannyj v 1967 godu. Imenno s etoj veschi nachalas evropejskaja izvestnost avtora, sozdavshego vposledstvii takie romany, kak "Nevynosimaja legkost bytija", "Vals na proschanie" i drugie bestsellery. Etot roman - istorija ljubvi i mesti, v osnove kotoroj lezhit legkomyslennaja shutlivaja otkrytka, otpravlennaja molodym parnem svoej vozljublennoj. Etoj otkrytke suzhdeno bylo ne tolko razrushit neskolko zhiznej, no i posluzhit vazhnejshim svjazujuschim zvenom mezhdu proshlym i buduschim.

Milan Kundera prinadlezhit k chislu samykh populjarnykh pisatelej sovremennosti. Ego knigi bukvalno zavorazhivajut chitatelja izyskannostju stilja, umelym postroeniem sjuzheta, nakalom chuvstv u geroev. Kazhdoe novoe proizvedenie pisatelja popolnjaet rjad bestsellerov intellektualnoj prozy. V romane "Vals na proschanie" rasskazyvaetsja o protivorechivykh otnoshenijakh mezhdu vosemju ljudmi, kotorye vstrechajutsja v malenkom kurortnom gorodke v Chekhoslovakii v nachale 1970-kh godov. Kazhdyj iz nikh okazyvaetsja vovlechennym v raznoobraznye ljubovnye peripetii, kotorye perekreschivajutsja mezhdu soboj, rozhdaja zamyslovatyj sjuzhetnyj risunok, blizhe k finalu priobretajuschij neozhidanno tragicheskie tsveta.

Milan Kundera prinadlezhit k chislu samykh populjarnykh pisatelej sovremennosti. Ego knigi bukvalno zavorazhivajut chitatelja izyskannostju stilja, umelym postroeniem sjuzheta, nakalom chuvstv u geroev. Kazhdoe novoe proizvedenie pisatelja popolnjaet rjad bestsellerov intellektualnoj prozy. "Shutka" - pervyj roman Milana Kundery, napisannyj v 1967 godu. Imenno s etoj veschi nachalas evropejskaja izvestnost avtora, sozdavshego vposledstvii takie romany, kak "Nevynosimaja legkost bytija", "Vals na proschanie" i drugie bestsellery. Etot roman - istorija ljubvi i mesti, v osnove kotoroj lezhit legkomyslennaja shutlivaja otkrytka, otpravlennaja molodym parnem svoej vozljublennoj. Etoj otkrytke suzhdeno bylo ne tolko razrushit neskolko zhiznej, no i posluzhit vazhnejshim svjazujuschim zvenom mezhdu proshlym i buduschim.

Milan Kundera prinadlezhit k chislu samykh populjarnykh pisatelej sovremennosti. Ego knigi bukvalno zavorazhivajut chitatelja izyskannostju stilja, umelym postroeniem sjuzheta, nakalom chuvstv u geroev. Kazhdoe novoe proizvedenie pisatelja popolnjaet rjad bestsellerov intellektualnoj prozy. V romane "Vals na proschanie" rasskazyvaetsja o ljubvi, nenavisti i otnoshenijakh mezhdu vosemju personazhami, kotorye vstrechajutsja v malenkom kurortnom gorodke v Chekhoslovakii v nachale 1970-kh. Kazhdyj iz nikh okazyvaetsja vovlechennym v raznoobraznye ljubovnye peripetii, kotorye perekreschivajutsja mezhdu soboj, rozhdaja zamyslovatyj sjuzhetnyj risunok, blizhe k finalu priobretajuschij neozhidanno tragicheskie tsveta.