Milan Kundera, Iconic Author of ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being,’ Passes Away: Remembering a Literary Luminary

Milan Kundera, the Czech-born author of the novel “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” has died at the age of 94. Kundera’s most popular book, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” follows a tangle of lovers before and after the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968. It starts off ruminating on philosophy, but it has a conversational tone. Kundera was an influential author who grew alienated from his homeland and became French.

Milan Kundera, the author of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” wrote several other books throughout his career. Some of his notable works include:

“The Book of Laughter and Forgetting” (1978)
“Identity” (1998)
“The Joke” (1967)
“Immortality” (1990)
“Laughable Loves” (1969)
“Farewell Waltz” (1972)
“Life is Elsewhere” (1973)
“Slowness” (1995)
“The Festival of Insignificance” (2013)
“The Art of the Novel” (1986)
“The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts” (2005)

These books cover a range of themes and styles, from philosophical musings to comedic love triangles. “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” remains Kundera’s most popular work, but his other books have also received critical acclaim.