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Along with the likes of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Brodsky, and fellow Czech playwright-turned-politician-turned-president Vaclav Havel, Kundera was seen by the West -- and the democratic East, including India -- as a star dissident writer, his novels coming across as denouements against the ‘closed societies’ of the Soviet Empire during the last lap of the Cold War. The Literature Nobel was thought to be all but on his mantelpiece.
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