The Joker’s Loneliness & Exile
April 1st, 2009
Simon Evans is a former pro-skateboarder and a writer.
See his exhibition - Island Time
See more paintings by Simon Evans….
His Color Wheel <> <> School of Green Grocer <> <> Everything I have <>
Link to Clown Family! Happy April Fool’s Day
“The Joke”, was his first novel. Milan Kundera was born on April 1 on April fool’s day, and he is 80 years old today.
Happy Birthday 
Milan Kundera!
Eternal exile of Milan Kundera
The famed author’s life has mirrored that of his most famous emigre character.
Coetzee, Gordimer, Pamuk, Roth, Marquez: Leave Milan Kundera Alone
Eleven writers including South African Nobel Laureates JM Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer have signed a letter in support of Milan Kundera. Kundera has been the centre of controversy following allegations that he had denounced a western spy to the communist authorities in Czechoslovakia in 1950.
Applied to art, the notion of history has nothing to do with progress; it does not imply improvement, amelioration, an ascent; it resembles a journey undertaken to explore unknown lands and chart them. The novelist’s ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not say. Flaubert’s poetics does not devalue Balzac’s, any more than the discovery of the North Pole renders obsolete the discovery of America.
