Kundera Syllabary | The paper

“He heard the cries of the Communists who defended their inner purity and said to himself: because of your recklessness, our land has lost its freedom, perhaps for centuries, and you cry out that you feel innocent?”. From Love to Farewell Waltz. Life in words of the writer who died in Paris at the age of 94

Milan Kundera died today in Paris. The great Czech writer (born in Brno in 1929) and French citizen since 1981 (his Czechoslovakian citizenship was revoked after the “Book of laughter and oblivion” and returned only in 2019 was 94 years old. Francesco M. Cataluccio in this ” primer” analyzes his life and work for il Foglio. Cataluccio writes: “I owe Kundera one of the most beautiful intellectual and human adventures that have ever happened to me and the proof that ‘in the East’ there was a relationship with literature and culture much deeper than here”.