"Searching for Milan Kundera" Author: [France] Ariane Sherman Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House

* We keep encountering him in his works, but we dare not approach him

* Milan Kundera's life puzzle version, the first comprehensive disclosure of Kundera's life

* A legendary writer of great reputation, a contemporary hermit who disappears in the bustling city

Milan Kundera is one of the most widely read writers in the world, and he is also a writer who has successfully hidden himself. For 37 years, he has disappeared from the public eye because he has refused to appear in the media. The gestures of Agnes by the swimming pool, the smile of Karenin... The characters he created are unforgettable to readers, but he himself has become a ghost writer. He has put a seal on his life and the century-old history that is implicated in his experiences.

Ariane Sherman, the author of this book, has been eager to meet Kundera, the author of "The Joke", since she was 20 years old. In order to trace Kundera's footsteps, she has been on the road to find Milan Kundera, traveling back and forth from Eastern Europe to Western Europe, from Prague to Rennes, from Corsica to Belle Isle. She met Kundera's wife Vera and recalled the writer's past with her. She has interviewed well-known publishers, filmmakers, and TV anchors, paid tribute to murdered composers and pianists, met elderly dissidents and retired spies, and listened to the poems of Desnos and Apollinaire... She read Kundera's life through his works, and interpreted his works through the novelist's life. Such works and lives, after several translations, were lost and split between the two motherlands.

★ The only one: the first biography of Milan Kundera

★ Informative: Interviews with the writer’s wife, translator, friends, assistants, contemporary writers, etc., presenting a large amount of first-hand information

★ Interesting: Placing Kundera in the social relationship he is in not only reproduces Kundera as a person, but also presents the literary appearance of an era

★ With pictures and texts, it outlines the puzzle of Kundera's life

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