![]() ![]() ![]() It’s not difficult to see that Kundera was deeply disillusioned with communism, or rather with the Eastern brand of the sort, and how such communism changed his countrymen. Although he maintained his efforts to reform the changing Czechoslovak communism for several years, the newer brand of ideological totalitarianism pervading the country eventually convinced Kundera to stop trying to change things. For Kundera-who repeatedly faced expulsion from the Czechoslovak Communist Party for reformist, or in other words, anti-Party actions-the burst of the Prague Spring in 1968 followed by the reactive Soviet invasion was a great turning point in his life. Milan Kundera, who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1929, joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in the 1940s and saw it seize power in 1948. ![]() When Olga Carlisle, writing for the New York Times Magazine in 1985, spoke to Milan Kundera, a Czech-born and later French-naturalized writer, he said with what read like a poignant disposition: “My stay in France is final, and therefore, I am not an émigré. ![]()
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