b.1929
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Contemporary Czechoslovakian author of such
books as "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", "Immortality" and and a non fiction work "The Art of the Novel" His influence is great and spreads across many disparate disciplines.
Among his fans include Richard Rorty, one of the biggest names in American philosophy today, and musician David Sylvian who wrote a song based on Kundera's work "The Laughter and Forgetting" |
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From The Book of Laughter and Forgetting :
"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting".
"Ultimately everyone lets everything be forgotten ".
The cap on Gottwald's head (Clements airbrushed out of history - charged with treason and hanged.
Called Novalis "the poet of death", Kafka "Prophet of a world without memory" and also refers to Nietzsche, amomg many others...
The Prague Spring of 1968.
From Immortality :
Affirmation of the present.
The here and now.
Releasing inner tensions.
Aloofness vs. seriousness.
public vs. private immortality
GRUND - german name for the code within us explaining our actions
GRIDS is part of
