PARIS (AP) — Milan Kundera, the renowned but reclusive author whose dissident writings transformed him into an exiled satirist of totalitarianism and explorer of identity and the human condition, has died in Paris. He was 94. Kundera died Tuesday afternoon, his long-standing publishing house Gallimard said in a one-sentence statement on Czech-born French writer Milan Kundera has died at the age of 94, public broadcaster Czech Television reported on Wednesday. The award-winning author was renowned for novels delving into the By Robert Muller and Jan Lopatka. PRAGUE (Reuters) -Czech-born writer Milan Kundera, author of the novel "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" who lived nearly five decades in Paris after emigrating One French reviewer called it “magnificent, sunny, profound and funny” – words that for many will bring back the charm, the magic and the delirious eroticism of Kundera’s most famous book He is the author of the novels The Joke, Life is Elsewhere, Farewell Waltz, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and of the short-story collection Laughable Loves - all originally in Czech. His most recent novels, Slowness, Identity and Ignorance, as well as his non-fiction works The Art of . So given his perfectionism, this was a long-term job, but now readers will get the book that Milan Kundera thinks should exist,” Ststka told Radio Praha at the time. Kundera refused to appear on camera, rejected any annotation when his complete published works were released in 2011, and, earlier, would not allow any digital copies of his ISBN. 978-0-06-099505-8. OCLC. 28124158. The Joke ( Czech: Žert) is Milan Kundera 's first novel, originally published in 1967. It describes how a student's private joke derails his life, and the entwined stories of his lovers and friends grappling with the shifting roles of folk traditions and religion under Communist Czechoslovakia . Kundera’s most famous work, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” was published in 1984 and gained worldwide recognition. The novel explores the lives of several characters against the backdrop of the political turmoil in Prague during the late 1960s and 1970s. It’s a result of Kundera’s meeting with Prime Minister Andrej Babis in Paris last year. Kundera fled Communist Czechoslovakia and has lived in France since 1975, and it is there that he published his most famous books, including “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting,” “The Art of the Novel” and “Immortality.” Milan Kundera, author of nine novels and assorted essays, plays, and poetry, was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1929. While he was a Communist as a young man, Kundera then became one of the youthful members of the short-lived Prague Spring of 1968, whose slogan was "the promise of Socialism with a human face."

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