Name: UN OCCIDENTE SECUESTRADO (in Spanish)
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Author: Milan Kundera
ISBN: 9788411072304

portada UN OCCIDENTE SECUESTRADO (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Milan Kundera

Publisher

TUSQUETS EDITORES

Collection

Condición Humana

Year

2023

Language

Spanish

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.50 x 14.80

ISBN13

9788411072304

Edited in

España

Synopsis "UN OCCIDENTE SECUESTRADO (in Spanish)"

La cultura checa de los a¤os sesenta del pasado siglo goz¢ de unasorprendente vitalidad: la literatura, el teatro y el cine mostrabanuna originalidad y diversidad excepcionales, en vivo contraste con laacelerada descomposici¢n de las estructuras pol¡ticas y los embates de una frrea censura. Esta obra contiene dos textos del granintelectual checo: su discurso ante el Congreso de Escritores de 1967, en el que abog¢ valientemente por la autonom¡a de la cultura y lalibertad de los creadores, y Un Occidente secuestrado (1983), unextenso art¡culo que en su momento suscit¢ un vivo debate pol¡tico enlas principales publicaciones culturales europeas. En el contexto desu peque¤o pa¡s, en plena dictadura comunista, el autor se preguntapor el peso de la barbarie en la historia y en la vida de los sereshumanos, y de forma premonitoria, advierte de las amenazas de Rusia(entonces la Uni¢n Sovitica) frente al resto de Europa.

Milan Kundera

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Milan Kundera (/'mɪlan 'kundɛra/ Brno, April 1, 1929-Paris, July 11, 2023) was a Czech novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Since 1975, he lived with his wife in France, where he acquired citizenship in 1987.

Kundera's most famous work is The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Before the Velvet Revolution of 1989, the communist regime in Czechoslovakia banned his books. He led a low-profile life and rarely spoke to the media. He was thought to be a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature and was also nominated for other awards.

He received the Jerusalem Prize in 1985, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 1987, and the Herder Prize in 2000. In 2021, he was awarded the Order of Merit by the president of Slovenia.

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