Milan Kundera and Mikhail Bulgakov

[Lebenssturme]

Hi, I'm new here.
I've just read 2 books by milan kundera: 'the unbearable lightness of being' and 'the imortality'. There's another book - fantastic! - of mikhail bulgakov 'Margarita and the master' that I'm reading yet.
Anyone had read some these books? what you thing of them?

[026497]

I have read the "unbearable lightness of being" a few months ago. i don't really understand the hidden meaning of it. Many people claims that it is a masterpiece. I think it is only suitable for grown-up. Maybe only people over 40 can understand. Just like "The Hours" and "Mrs Dalloway".

[bernhard]

Yes, I read all three. They are excellent.

There is a movie version of  Kundera’s  “Unbearable lightness of being”. (Directed by Phillip Kaufmann and with DAniel Day Lewis, Lena olin and Juliete Binoche)

Other books of his that I read are equally superb: “The Joke” (his first book), “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting”, “Identity”, “Slowness” and “Ignorance”.

There is also a book he wrote called "The Art of the Novel" (which is really a book on literary criticism) which is very interesting because he discusses some of his favourite authors, as well as his own works.

Best wishes,
Bernhard.