SOURCE: THE WIRE

Milan Kundera, the remarkable novelist, essayist, poet, philosopher and political critic, has died at the age of 94. It feels too soon, perhaps because in everything he wrote, he opened up new ways of thinking, reading and writing. In his literary presence, the world seemed tuned to a higher frequency.

Kundera was born with immaculate timing, on April 1, 1929 (April Fool’s Day). From the start, he was exposed immersed in, the absurdity of human culture. He grew up in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, then lived under Stalinist rule, where he was an active member of the Communist Party.

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