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Liepman Literary Agency
Marc Koralnik |
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MILAN KUNDERA
Une Vie d'Écrivain
The first biography of one of the most essential contemporary writers, who turns 90 in 2019
Born in 1929, first destined to become a musician (like his father, a notorious piano player), he becomes a
communist poet. A brilliant ironist, he criticizes the regime in his first novels, with a disenchanted humor. He teaches cinema for more than 20 years in the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and takes up boxing as an amateur. Excluded from the Party after Prague Spring, he leaves Czechoslovakia in 1957 to move in France. There he publishes his hot novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being and chooses, in 1995, French as his unique writing language.
Jean-Dominique Brierre retraces his literary, intellectual and political contrasting path, and gives an historical enlightenment by basing on Kundera's writings and new testimonies from celebrities and close relationships.
Paradoxical, complex, secret, absent from media, Milan Kundera is considered today as one of the best writers of that half-century, besides Philip Roth or Ismail Kadare.
Journalist and music historian, Jean-Dominique Brierre wrote many works about folk and rock music, such as Leonard Cohen par lui-même (Le Cherche-midi, 2014) and Bob Dylan. A Life As A Poetry (L'Archipel, 2016 sold in China).
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gJ5hsDEfdw
communist poet. A brilliant ironist, he criticizes the regime in his first novels, with a disenchanted humor. He teaches cinema for more than 20 years in the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and takes up boxing as an amateur. Excluded from the Party after Prague Spring, he leaves Czechoslovakia in 1957 to move in France. There he publishes his hot novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being and chooses, in 1995, French as his unique writing language.
Jean-Dominique Brierre retraces his literary, intellectual and political contrasting path, and gives an historical enlightenment by basing on Kundera's writings and new testimonies from celebrities and close relationships.
Paradoxical, complex, secret, absent from media, Milan Kundera is considered today as one of the best writers of that half-century, besides Philip Roth or Ismail Kadare.
Journalist and music historian, Jean-Dominique Brierre wrote many works about folk and rock music, such as Leonard Cohen par lui-même (Le Cherche-midi, 2014) and Bob Dylan. A Life As A Poetry (L'Archipel, 2016 sold in China).
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gJ5hsDEfdw
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Published 2019-03-01 by L'Archipel |