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Poland’s EU Presidency: Shaping Enlargement Through Security – COMMENTARY
28 November 2024
Milan Kundera’s life crossed much of what has shaped the history of postwar Central Europe.
The extent of public reflection on Milan Kundera’s death testifies to his prominence as a Western intellectual and may well be the final chapter in his storied impact on his native region, which he left in the years of stiffening communist rule in Czechoslovakia after the Soviet-led invasion of 1968.
A European figure
At the end of the summit in Vilnius, Emmanuel Macron, in a message to the Russian leadership, referred to Kundera’s famous description of Central Europe as “a kidnapped West”. Macron stated that Russia “could not again kidnap this West dear to Milan Kundera to whom I want to pay tribute today.”
The flood of obituaries, commentaries and polemics over his life and the literary corpus he left behind revisited Kundera’s milestone moments. These include the writer’s communist youth, support of liberal reforms widely known as the Prague Spring and his much-quoted exchange with Václav Havel over the 1968 reforms and its subsequent crushing by Soviet tanks.
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