Milan Kundera, Writer of ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being,’ Dies at 94

was an instant global hit and reprinted in dozens of languages. The story follows Tomas, a Czech surgeon and serial philanderer who is caught between his wife, who wants a monogamous relationship, and a seductive painter he regularly meets for sex. After the Soviet invasion, the politically outspoken Tomas is banned from working as a doctor and becomes a window washer.

The 1988 film version, for the screen by Philip Kaufman, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Tomas, alongside Juliette Binoche and Lena Olin, was a cross-over hit and nominated for two Oscars, for best-adapted screenplay and for best cinematography for Sven Nykvist. Kaufman won a BAFTA for best-adapted screenplay.

Several other of his works were adapted as films or TV projects in the Czech Republic, including Jaromil Jires’s 1969 feature, which Kundera helped adapt from his own novel.

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