K0114450 (ko͝on-dĕr′ə, ko͝on′dĕ-rä), Milan Born 1929. Czech-born writer best known for his novels, including The Joke (1967), The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979), and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), all of which exhibit his extreme, though often comical, skepticism.