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Milan kundera, czech novelist, shortstory writer, playwright, essayist, and poet whose works combine erotic comedy with political criticism and philosophical speculation. Milan kundera, the francoczech novelist, was born in brno and has lived in france, his second homeland, for more than twenty years. The first edition of the novel was published in january 12th 1990, and was written by milan kundera. Now, a quarter century after the joke was first published and several years after. All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscar.
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