In his novels, the Czech-born author Milan Kundera (born 1929) sought to discover the answer to the question: What is the nature of existence" Milan Kundera was one of the most important and talented novelists to emerge from the death throes of the old C...

Milan Kundera is one of the few Czech writers who have achieved wide international recognition. In his native Czechoslovakia, Kundera has been regarded as an important author and intellectual since his early twenties. Each of his creative works and contr...

Milan Kundera is one of the few Czech writers who have achieved wide international recognition. In his native Czechoslovakia, Kundera has been regarded as an important author and intellectual since his early twenties. Each of his creative works and contr...

Peter Petro, ed. Critical Essays on Milan Kundera. Critical Essays on World Literature. New York: G. K. Hall & Co, 1999. xi, 293 pp. Selected Bibliography. Index. $49.00, cloth. A collection of reviews, interviews, open letters, articles and essays that focus on the...

Researchers are claiming human immortality is just around the corner. Scientists at the University of Texas are saying we may be able to slow down, halt or even reverse human aging. We can do this, they say, by adding telomerase -- an enzyme...

Nicholas Miraculous: The Amazing Career of the Redoubtable Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, by Michael Rosenthal. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 528 pages, $35. To begin at the end: Nicholas Murray Butler, household name for half a century, is now as obscure as Chester Greenwood,...

Nicholas Miraculous: The Amazing Career of the Redoubtable Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, by Michael Rosenthal. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 528 pages, $35.To begin at the end: Nicholas Murray Butler, household name for half a century, is now as obscure as Chester Greenwood, inventor of the...