Milan Kundera Quotes


There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the ecstasy of ear-splitting noise, ecstasy in the soccer stadium.


Citations

Kundera, Milan. Slowness. HarperCollins, 1996, p. 147.

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Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera
  • Born: April 1, 1929
  • Nationality: Czech
  • Profession: Writer

Milan Kundera is a Czech writer who went into exile in France in 1975, becoming a naturalised French citizen in 1981. Kundera's Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979. He received his Czech citizenship back in 2019. He "sees himself as a French writer and insists his work should be studied as French literature and classified as such in book stores".