9. Milan Kundera’s Fiction and Facts
                                         Lecturer: Bohumil Fořt


23 April


This seminar introduces students to one of the most widely referred to works of modern Czech
literature, Milan Kundera´s The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Based on this particular text, an
analysis of crucial factual and fictional issues of Czech history will follow. A general survey of
Kundera´s work is also a part of this lecture.



Recommended reading:


·        Kundera, Milan: The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Translated by Michael Henry Heim.
London, Faber and Faber, 1999.

·        Kundera, Milan: The Joke. London, Faber and Faber, 1992.