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The unbearable likeness of being

Kundera faced challenges that possibly no other writer of his calibre and time faced, making his work even more fascinating

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5 min read Last Updated : May 26 2020 | 12:10 AM IST

Three writers who fascinate me for the canvas of their work are Umberto Eco for his sheer scholarliness and the possibilities he introduced into his fiction; Gabriel Garcia Marquez for his magic and, again, the large political canvas; and Milan Kundera for being extremely personal in examining relationships and at the same time compellingly political.

Of the three, Kundera stands out for one aspect — that he continuously breaks the form of a novel, recreates new possibilities both in construction and in the narrative style and continuously plays around with time. No wonder Kundera has had on-going problems with his

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