Milan Kundera

The story of Miroslav Dvoracek, a Czech spy for the West, would fit well into a Kundera novel. Caught by the secret police in 1950 while on an undercover mission to Prague, he was tortured and then served 14 years in a labour camp. ... Now a police record found by Adam Hradilek, a historian at the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, in Prague, suggests that it was one of those friends, the young Mr Kundera, who was the informer. --The Economist, The unbearable weight of history, October 16, 2008


Recommended reading:
by Milan Kundera at Reading Rat


Criticism (articles, essays, reviews):

Kundera's musings on the novel by Carlin Romano, review of The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts by Milan Kundera, translated by Linda Asher, Philadelphia Inquirer, March 11, 2007
(via Arts & Letters Daily)

Review by Noel Murray, The Curtain: An Essay In Seven Parts by Milan Kundera, A.V. Club, February 8, 2007

Milan Kundera on the civilizing values of the novel by Michael Dirda, review of The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts by Milan Kundera, translated by Linda Asher, The Washington Post, February 4, 2007
(via Arts & Letters Daily)

Light but sound, review by John Banville of The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, translated by Michael Henry Heim, Guardian, May 1, 2004

The ambiguities of Milan Kundera by Roger Kimball, The New Criterion, January 1986