Milan Kundera Quotes
To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.
Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Translated by Michael Henry Heim, Harper & Row, 1984, p. 296.
He was a great military leader who conquered much of India as well as the Middle East. Warfare was such a way of life for him that most of his joys and problems came while on a military campaign. He knew little else. He is often referred to as the Muslim Napoleon for his love of and prowess in war. The graphic shows him with his army.
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 Kundera's Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979.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".
