Quotes by Kundera, Milan

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isol >>

The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and >>

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: >>

Quotations about Literature

The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, sin >>

Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current li >>

Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterat >>

The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programs; or cartoons. What is essential in a novel is precisely what can only be expressed in a novel, and so every adaptation contains nothing but the non-essential. If a person is still crazy enough to write novels nowadays and wants to protect them, he has to write them in such a way that they cannot be adapted, in other words, in such a way that they cannot be retold.

Kundera, Milan