Decades ago, when Czechs wanted to read their country's most famous author, Milan Kundera, they often had to resort to samizdat the clandestine copying and distribution of government-suppressed literature or other media in Soviet-bloc countries. Now those who want to read him in his mother tongue are still consulting
pirate
versions not because of censorship, but because of Kundera's perfectionism.
The 77-year-old, who wrote his last three novels in French, insists on translating them into Czech himself and he's in no hurry. So when one impatient anonymous literary toiler posted an
illegal
translation...
