Joke. Faber Modern Classics, Paperback - Milan Kundera

The Joke, Milan Kundera's first novel, gained him a huge following in his own country, and launched his worldwide literary reputation. 'Kundera is ...

The Joke, Milan Kundera's first novel, gained him a huge following in his own country and launched his worldwide literary reputation.

This Faber Modern Classics edition includes a foreword by Alan Johnson MP. 'Larkin, with his (in the best sense) provincial eye, and his unparallel...

From his remarkable debut in 1966, Seamus Heaney pioneered the poetry of our times across five decades of cultural and political change, and was aw...

Venya is more interested in how much he and his colleagues can drink during the working day than in his job. Once he is fired, he spends the last o...

Explains the persistence of certain principles and aspirations throughout the history of art. This title provides a basis for the appreciation of p...

John Osborne's play launched the 'angry young men' movement, writers from working or middle class background who had become disillusioned with Brit...

Hannah Arendt's penetrating observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, have been fundamental to our understanding...

John McGahern is widely considered to be one of Ireland's greatest writers, with fans including John Updike, Hilary Mantel, Colm Toibin and John Ba...

"My name is Karim Amir, and I am an Englishman born and bred, almost..."The hero of Hanif Kureishi's debut novel is dreamy teenager Karim, desperat...

Set before the start of the First World War, this moving fable sees a young English writer set out to Crete to claim a small inheritance. Zorba has...

As James Joyce was working on Finnegans Wake, he asked his friend T.S. This celebrated episode, Anna Livia Plurabelle, was the first part of Joyce'...

and Rabelais with his heirs - the great novelists.In the light of their wisdom this book examines some of the great situations of our time. the tes...

George was born into a world of village cricket matches and fox-hunting, but his failing income and the onset of war threatens his way of life. Thi...

Marito is a young Peruvian who toils away at his local radio station, dreaming of becoming a writer, before his life is torn apart by two arrivals....

On receiving an early copy, Evelyn Waugh remarked 'If these stories are in fact the work of a young lady, they are indeed remarkable. 'She's horrif...

The classic of literary criticism from one of the world's greatest novelists. In seven independent, but closely related chapters, Milan Kundera pre...

Reducere. All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now, a quarter century af...

This collection contains stories about the sport of love - Don Juanism, ageing, male and female power and seductions undertaken for all kinds of in...

A budding poet and his adoring mother are the central characters of this intriguing early novel by Milan Kundera. He takes us through the young man...

In this novel - a story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities - Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of twentieth-century 'Being' In a ...

Reducere. Lumea zugravita in Nemurirea este o lume descompusa, alcatuita din cioburi care pe alocuri se imbina fara fisura si pe alocuri refuza orice potrivi...

Reducere. Un barbat si o femeie se intalnesc din intamplare cand se intorc in tara natala, pe care o parasisera cu doua decenii in urma. Vor reusi sa reia o ...

Slownesswas Milan Kundera's first novel written in French. Disconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows him through a midsummer's night in which ...

Reducere. "Sarbatoarea neinsemnatatii e un roman insemnat, care aduna laolalta teme esentiale din scrisul lui Kundera, dar, atentie, cu schimbari neasteptate...

Reducere. "Arta europeana a romanului este trama unificatoare a Testamentelor tradate, dar aceasta trama se dedubleaza in doua discursuri care, la randu-le, ...

Reducere. In sapte texte relativ independente, Milan Kundera isi expune conceptia despre romanul european, "arta nascuta din rasul lui Dumnezeu". Volumul a f...

Reducere. Un barbat si o femeie se intalnesc din intamplare cand se intorc in tara natala, pe care o parasisera cu doua decenii in urma. Vor reusi sa reia o ...

Reducere. Sa confunde aparenta fizica a iubitei cu cea a unei straine: a mai trait senzatia asta, o, de cate ori! De fiecare data cu aceeasi uimire: diferent...

Reducere. Lentoarea este primul roman scris de Milan Kundera direct in franceza. Subiectul lui este de altfel „frantuzesc“. Cu toate acestea, critica parizia...

Reducere. Lumea zugravita in Nemurirea este o lume descompusa, alcatuita din cioburi care pe alocuri se imbina fara fisura si pe alocuri refuza orice potrivi...

Reducere. Publicat in Franta in 2009, volumul de fata reprezinta, dupa cum insusi Milan Kundera isi avertizeaza cititorul, "o intalnire intre reflectiile si ...

Reducere. Iubirea este pentru Milan Kundera altceva decat blanda visare sau suspin abisal, ceva mult mai palpabil, „epidermic“ aproape. Nu maladive fantasme,...

Reducere. Sarbatoarea neinsemnatatii e un roman insemnat, care aduna laolalta teme esentiale din scrisul lui Kundera, dar, atentie, cu schimbari neasteptate ...

Reducere. Cu cat un scriitor sau un compozitor e mai mare, cu atat creste si tentatia interpretarilor abuzive: posteritatea risca sa-i falsifice opera de dra...

Reducere. Primul roman al lui Milan Kundera publicat dupa stabilirea in Franta, in 1975, este o scriere la fel de 'muzicala' pe cat o indica titlul si pe cat...

A chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman who escaped him 15 years earlier. trapped between her dead husband and a ...