Reckoning With Memory In contemporary Czech literature, and world literature for that matter, one of the names that stand tall is Milan Kundera. Born in Brno, Czechoslovakia before it was split into two states, Kundera initially studied musicology and musical composition; his father, Ludvik Kundera (1891-1971), was a renowned concert pianist and musicologist who served as the … Continue reading Book Review # 395: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting