Shay Reilly
asked:
I mean no disrespect and still I'm at a loss: why, all those years ago, was I introduced to Milan Kundera before Bohumil Hrabal?
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Adéla MichalÃková
Because Kundera himself has always wanted to be an author with world-wide impact and thanks to Unbearable Ligthness of Being, he became one. If you compare translations of Czech authors into English, Kundera is the second most translated (first is Karel ÄŒapek) and Hrabal is only at the 9th place. Probably because his texts are much more bound to the Czech language and therefore more difficult to translate. And I would personally say that Kundera is much more easy to read and understand.
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One could argue that a soviet emigrant was quite exotic in 1975 and received more attention than those who remained behind the iron curtain (and faced a publication ban as well), also helped by the French citizenship.
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