Flagged Victor
“I had lived for a time in the Czech town Kundera grew up in (one more stop for me in a lifetime of serial getaways), so I took particular notice of the controversy. Although the Cold War was long over in the West, it lingered in living memory in the Czech Republic. There was a heaviness to the place, a sense that the geography was the dense region of the mind where nothing escapes or is forgotten. The Communists had been into consequences. They’d made a fetish of responsibility. They kept good ...track of every transgression and misdeed, criminalizing ordinary life, casting every act or utterance as suspicious, regardless of context or intent, in order to retain the threat of accusation for whenever it might be needed. And so the past kept resurfacing, especially as old files got exposed to the light, like clay vessels in which prophecies or heresies (depending on your point of view) had been buried.
In one particular file from 1950, the young Milan Kundera had been referred to as a police informant.MoreLess
In one particular file from 1950, the young Milan Kundera had been referred to as a police informant.MoreLess
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