On Tuesday 11 July, Milan Kundera, one of the most important writers of the 20th century, died in his apartment in Paris.
The Czech writer, playwright, and poet died at the age of 94 after a long illness in France, where he had lived for the past 50 years after leaving his native country for political reasons. The author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being received numerous literary awards during his career, one of the most prestigious being the Légion d’honneur, one of the French decorations of honor. Although he has long been considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature, he was sadly unable to receive it in his lifetime.
He saw the search for truth as the main aim of his novel, believing that in the fragmented world of the 20th century, it would be a mirror that could bring man and his environment back into harmony. In this way, one’s particular experience of the world and the existential questions that have always preoccupied him would be revealed, embedded in the particular age. These include forgetting, love, and death.
As we reported earlier, on 11 April, the author’s birthday, Milan Kundera opened a library in the Moravian Library in Brno, not only because of his greatness as a writer, but also because of the value his works can still convey to any generation.
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