Milan Kundera, author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, dies aged 94

Milan Kundera,

one of the biggest names in European literature in recent decades,

has died

in Paris aged 94.His

best-known

work was his 1984 novel

The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

Anna Mrazova

, a spokeswoman for the Milan Kundera Library in his home city of Brno in the Czech Republic,

said

(

he had died after a long illness

)

.A

poetic

and

satirical

author, Kundera's

novels won praise

for their observation of

both

politics

and

everyday life.Czech Prime Minister

Petr Fiala

said

his work

reached

"whole generations of readers across all continents and achieved global fame"."He leaves behind

not only

notable fiction,

but also

significant essay work."

生詞/組：

best-known 最著名的;眾所周知的

poetic 詩的;詩歌的;富有詩意的;像詩一般的;

satirical 諷刺的;譏諷的

reach v. 被看到，被聽到

譯文：

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