This author explained his philosophy of writing in The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts and wrote about two ?igr? meeting in 
This author explained his philosophy of writing in The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts and wrote about two ?igr? meeting in a Paris airport in his recent novel Ignorance. He wrote a fictional biography of the poet Jaromil in Life is Elsewhere, while Ludvik, Kostka, and Jaroslav are among the narrators of his first novel, The Joke. He described life in his native country through such characters as Marketa and Mirek in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, while his most famous novel sees the doctor Tomas lose his job for criticizing communists during Prague Spring. FTP, name this Czech author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
This author explained his philosophy of writing in The Curtain:
Milan Kundera