Our guest today: Milan Kundera
When we decided to invite Milan Kundera to come and eat with us, he was still alive and kicking away in France. So was Mauritz's father. Alive that is. Not kicking away in France. First Milan passed on, hopefully to a world of ideas, a soft world, a home, where people speak Czech. A world without any totalitarian states and kitsch, lies or people being sent away . A nd then, just like that, Mauritz's dad went. To be with God and wine, high mountains and Mozart. A place without dementia and pain. A place where he could be Hugo again, which made it kind of obvious to invite both of their ghosts to come and eat and believe with us. Even though these two ghosts are absolute polar opposites. Image of Kundera by Boris Percer, as used in the article "Does Milan Kundera still matter?" The Atlantic 2015 I Lightness and Weight I was fourteen or so when I saw The Unbearable Lightness of Being for the first time. A tad young for such a... complex...