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« on: September 12, 2023, 06:26:28 am »Time proved him right, since these "television studies", with rare exceptions, became debates about egos, emotions or reactions. Or in parallel monologues. She saw it coming. I was lucky to have Milan Kundera as a professor at EHESS. For five years, I attended his classes, I learned, and what I owe him continues to mark me even 40 years later. I don't want to and can't say anything about the man I met: he was courteous, reserved, funny, with impressive intelligence and rigor.
A few words about his humor. He had that central European Phone Number List of humor that we shared, naturally, or almost. He was a native of a small nation trapped between predatory and, without overusing the adjective, imperialist powers. For such a fragile country, the threat was constant, and in the early 1980s, Czechoslovakia was living under the Soviet yoke.
That Bohemia, as he called it, even though he was Moravian, had always been a fertile terrain and, from the formalism of Roman Jakobson to Franz Kafka, Jaroslav Hašek or Bohumil Hrabal, passing through Leoš Janáček (also a native of Brno) or the philosopher Jan Patočka, there are countless intellectuals and artists who have given prestige to that country. Let's add to this list some names of filmmakers: Miloš Forman, Ivan Passer and Agnieszka Holland, among others.