Milan Kundera News

 I read Kundera in prison after having heard of him for decades, and I liked the guy. This news from The Literary Saloon does sadden:

Milan Kundera's library

       They've been carting away Milan Kundera's library for a while now, but now the last of it is gone from his Paris home and arrived in Brno and its Moravian Regional Library on Friday.
       As Thomas McEnchroe and Martin Balucha report at Radio Prague International, “The flat is completely empty now”: Milan Kundera’s library moves to Brno.
       They quote Kundera's wife, Věra:

The flat is completely empty now. I can prove that to you with a photograph. It’s quite terrible and hard to see, those two lives that are now gone. Those lives left together with the library, with the archive.

       See also the Czech News Agency report in Brno Daily, Second Half of Milan Kundera's Library Transported To Brno and the library press release.

       Gotta feel for the old guy -- 93 now ! -- the Nobel announcement last week (he didn't win, yet again) and now all his books gone .....

I suspect, like Philip Roth, the Nobel will never come his way. Meanwhile, writers find his Art of the Novel.

sch 10/10/22