After Samuel Beckett switched from English to French, his writing became more concise, all nonessentials purged. In 1995, 20 years after abandoning Czechoslovakia for France, Milan Kundera published ...

Milan Kundera has a strikingly capacious vision of the novel. In an interview with Philip Roth from 1980, he enumerated some of the elements of his fiction: “Ironic essay, novelistic narrative, ...

Milan Kundera’s first novel in 15 years celebrates the superfluous – and feels a bit that way itself Milan Kundera was a gateway drug for me, my initiation into the world of serious literature. I ...

Milan Kundera, the author best known for “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” has a new novel coming in English, the first in more than decade, the Guardian reports. Previously published in France, ...

When Marilyn Monroe meets Albert Einstein in Insignificance, she's wearing dark sunglasses and the white dress from The Seven Year Itch. Lazy thinking may suggest that she's the beauty and he's the ...

Lofty hypotheses abound as McCarthy challenges Einstein's ideas on the currency of knowledge ("you love knowledge; I like knowing things"), Monroe spouts Einstein's theories back to him, and a ...

The Nobel Prize contender and Paris-based Czech émigré Milan Kundera’s eleventh work of fiction, his first book for more than a decade, is composed in the same way as many of his novels, using ...

Nicolas Roeg’s 1985 film “Insignificance,” newly issued in standard and Blu-ray DVD editions by the Criterion Collection, has an irresistible premise that suggests a blind item from a parallel ...