Milan Kundera as an Immigrant Writer

By birth, Czech novelist Milan Kundera who migrated in France since 1975 is too preoccupied with betrayal, which scatters both his life and his novels. For emigrants, the perturbing sense of being disloyal is aggravated by what Kundera defines “an émigré s artistic problem” Kundera's novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being in which the allegations of infidelity are central, the novel involves the most important Czech rebel sat home and leading Czech intellectuals in exile. Kundera like Marquez, Fuentes, and Rushdie, generates a intricate, multi dimensional novelistic value. Milan Kundera mentions this in The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Sabina, the character from The Unbearable Lightness of Being is not frightened to betray. Sabina betrays her father, she betrayed the Communist too, she betrays her mother land too. Critics who criticize Kundera for deceiving his motherland by largely changing his earlier works and alteration in Czech history disregard both his exilic “contrapuntal awareness” that widened his idea and the issues he raised. Rajanikant B. Bhoi | Dr. Sudhir J. Singh "Milan Kundera as an Immigrant Writer" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-6 | Issue-5 , August 2022, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd50483.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/other-scientific-research-area/other/50483/milan-kundera-as-an-immigrant-writer/rajanikant-b-bhoi