Milan Kundera was born in Czechoslovakia. In 1975, he moved to France. The apparent banality of these two sentences is deceptive: extremely simple, almost disappointing, they nevertheless constitute the only biography authorized by the Franco-Czech novelist in the French editions of his writings - and in particular of his Works, published by Gallimard in the prestigious “Bibliothèque de la Pléiade”, a privilege rarely granted to a living author.
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They hide like a thick mystery, the enigma of which is undoubtedly not yet completely resolved, certain theses now coming to contradict the official biographical account of the writer. Between this first day of April 1929, where he was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia (the city where he grew up and studied until 1948, before entering the faculty of Prague), and this summer 1975, where he went into exile in France, what could have happened? How a prominent student in his country, entered the Communist Party at the age of 18, son of a musician
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