This author of The Book of Laughter and Forgetting and The Joke also wrote a work ending with the death of Tomas and Tereza in a car accident.
In one work, this author described a young poet whose only friend in school is the janitor's son and who is pampered by his mother Maman. In addition to that novel about Jaromil, Life is Elsewhere, he wrote a work describing Tamina's attempt to retrieve her love letters. In his first novel one character serves six years of hard labor after the interception of a letter that included the comment, "Optimism is the opium of the people!" This author of The Book of Laughter and Forgetting and The Joke also wrote a work ending with the death of Tomas and Tereza in a car accident. For 10 points, name this Czech author who wrote The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
In one work, this author described a young poet whose only friend in school is the janitor's son and who is pampered by his mother Maman.
Milan {Kundera}