Milan Kundera, Czech author of 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being,' dies at 94

Milan Kundera, Czech author of 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being,' dies at 94

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PARIS — Milan Kundera, whose dissident writings in communist Czechoslovakia transformed him into an exiled satirist of totalitarianism, has died in Paris at the age of 94, Czech media said Wednesday. Kundera’s renowned novel, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” opens wrenchingly with Soviet tanks…

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