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The very booky adventures of evilmoose part i 75 books. His father, ludvik kundera 18911971, once a pupil of the composer leos janacek, was an important czech musicologist and pianist who served as the head of the janacek music academy in brno from 1948 to 1961. Library of congress cataloginginpublication data kundera, milan. Like flauberts emma or tolstoys anna, kunderas agnes becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing.
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