Milan Kundera, whose dissident writings in communist Czechoslovakia transformed him into an exiled satirist of totalitarianism, has died in Paris at the age of 94, Czech media said Wednesday.
The renowned author died Tuesday afternoon, his long-standing publishing house Gallimard said in a one-sentence statement on Wednesday. It confirmed that he died in Paris but provided no further information.``The Unbearable Lightness of Being,’’ Kundera's best-known novel, opens wrenchingly with Soviet tanks rolling through Prague, the Czech capital that was the author’s home until he moved to France in 1975.
He offered condolences to Kundera's wife Věra, who guarded her reclusive husband from the intrusions of the world. It was not immediately clear whether his wife was at his side. Kundera's name was often floated as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, but the honor eluded him. 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 writing, reflecting his loyalty to the printed word. Today, however, a Kindle version of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” is offered on Amazon and Google Books.
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