Editing Milan Kundera (section)

=== ''The Festival of Insignificance'' ===
{{Main|The Festival of Insignificance{{!}}''The Festival of Insignificance''}}
The 2014 novel focuses on the musings of four male friends living in Paris who discuss their relationships with women and the existential predicament confronting individuals in the world, among other things. The novel received generally negative reviews. [[Michiko Kakutani]] of the ''New York Times'' describes the book as being a "knowing, pre-emptive joke about its own superficiality".<ref name="Kakutani-2015">{{Cite news |last=Kakutani |first=Michiko |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/15/books/review-milan-kunderas-the-festival-of-insignificance-is-full-of-pranks-lies-and-vanity.html |title=Review: Milan Kundera's 'The Festival of Insignificance' Is Full of Pranks, Lies and Vanity |date=2015-06-14 |work=The New York Times |access-date=2015-12-29 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> A review in the ''Economist'' stated that the book was "sadly let down by a tone of breezy satire that can feel forced".<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21654001-czech-novelist-has-published-what-could-be-his-last-book-unbearable-lightness?zid=319&ah=17af09b0281b01505c226b1e574f5cc1 |title=Unbearable lightness |newspaper=The Economist|access-date=2015-12-29 |issn=0013-0613}}</ref>