This author termed Kafka, Broch, Musil, and Gombrowicz the "pleiad" of Central Europe's great novelists in an interview about his book The Art of the Novel. He wrote about five days in the life of the jazz trumpeter Klima in The Farewell Waltz and satirized romanticism in a 
This author termed Kafka, Broch, Musil, and Gombrowicz the "pleiad" of Central Europe's great novelists in an interview about his book The Art of the Novel. He wrote about five days in the life of the jazz trumpeter Klima in The Farewell Waltz and satirized romanticism in a novel about the poet Jaromil, Life is Elsewhere. Better known are a novel in which a postcard containing the phrase "Long Live Trotsky!" gets Ludvik Jahn in trouble with the Communist Party and a novel about the lives of Franz, Sabina, Tereza, and the surgeon Tomas in the wake of the Prague Spring. FTP, name this Czech author of The Joke, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, and The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
This author termed Kafka, Broch, Musil, and Gombrowicz the "pleiad" of Central Europe's great novelists in an interview about his book The Art of the Novel.