Author: Milan Kundera

Cited by

• Nayomi Munaweera (1)
  • IN: Island of a Thousand Mirrors (2012) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
    FROM: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, (1979), Book, Czech-Republic/France
• Hsu-Ming Teo (1)
  • IN: Love and Vertigo (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: ...vertigo is something other than the fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves... vertigo, the insuperable longing to fall.
    FROM: The Unbearable Lightness of Being, (1984), Novel, Czech-Republic/France
• Steve Yarbrough (1)
  • IN: Safe from the Neighbors (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The perpetual activity of forgetting gives our every act a ghostly, unreal, hazy quality. What did we have for lunch the day before yesterday?
    FROM: The Curtain, (2007), Novel, Czech-French
• Urban Waite (1)
  • IN: The Terror of Living (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.
    FROM: The Unbearable Lightness of Being, (1984), Novel, Czech Republic/France
• Venssa Manko (1)
  • IN: The Invention of Exile (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
    FROM: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, (1979), Novel, Czech Republic/France
• Rabih Alameddine (1)
  • IN: The Angel of History (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
    FROM: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, (1979), Novel, Czech Republic
• Alissa Nutting (1)
  • IN: Made for Love (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us.
    FROM: The Unbearable Lightness of Being, (1984), Novel, Czech/France