Bilal Ramadan wrote Friday, July 14, 2023 02:00 AMMilan Kundera And the world as a trap” is a book prepared by the writer and translator Amin Saleh, which we recommend to the audience of readers of world literature, coinciding with the death of the French writer and philosopher of Czech origins, who was considered a strong candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The great writer and translator, Amin Saleh, presents a comprehensive article about Milan Kundera in “Milan Kundera and the World as a Shirk”, as he transports the reader with him in extensive readings of Kundera’s biography, works and opinions, up to his articles and the most important dialogues that took place with him.
Milan Kundera is one of the most important and famous contemporary writers in Europe, and one of the few who has achieved wide international recognition, as he has become a global literary icon. In the eighties of the last century, Eastern European literature was put on the world literary map through its new and bold texts, and its call for inner freedom.
In his country he is seen as an important writer and thinker, and he is considered one of the most influential writers on contemporary Czech novelists, and on other writers in the world. Every book he publishes is considered a prominent cultural event, and all his contributions to public cultural and political conversations arouse much interest, controversy and lively debate.
It is noteworthy that Milan Kundera was born on April 1, 1929, to a Czech father and mother. His father, Ludvik Kundera, was a musicologist and president of the Jankik University of Arts and Music in Brno. Milan Kundera learned to play the piano from his father, and later studied musicology, cinema and literature. He graduated in 1952 and worked as an assistant professor and lecturer at the Film College at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts. He published poetry, articles and plays during his studies, and joined the editorial department of a number of literary magazines.
Milan Kundera joined the Communist Party in 1948, and he and writer Jean Travolca were dismissed in 1950 due to noticing individual tendencies on them, and then returned in 1956 to the ranks of the party, then separated again in 1970.
Milan Kundera published his first collection of poetry in 1953, but it did not receive enough attention. Kundera was not known as an important writer until 1963 after publishing his first collection of funny love stories.
Milan Kundera lost his job in 1968 after the Soviet Union entered Czechoslovakia, after his involvement in what was called the Prague Spring. He was forced to emigrate to France in 1975 after his books were banned from circulation for five years. He worked as an assistant professor at the University of Rennes in Brittany (France). 1981 after he applied for that after the Czechoslovak nationality was revoked from him in 1978, as a result of writing a book “Laugh and forget“.
Under the weight of these circumstances and developments in his life, Kundera wrote his famous novel “An Unbearable Lightness Object”, which made him a well-known international writer for its philosophical reflections, falling under the idea of Nietzsche’s eternal return. In 1995, Kundera decided to make French the language of his tongue. Literary through his novel “Slowness”.
