A Son of the Rock

I saw in the Guardian yesterday that Milan Kundera has died.

He was undoubtedly one of the most important European writers of the late twentieth and early twenty first centuries.

All writers are products of their time and place. Not all are accepted for that. In Kundera’s case that lack of acceptance by the government led to him having to leave his homeland, the then Czechoslovakia, and making a life for himself in France. So much so that his later books were written in French.

I have reviewed his books, here, here, here, here, and here. I still have some unread to look forward to.

Milan Kundera: 1/4/1929 – 11/7/2023. So it goes.