Ivan Klima, the Czech novelist whose survival of two totalitarian regimes — one Nazi, the other communist — made him one of Eastern Europe’s most perceptive distillers of the human condition under authoritarianism, died on Saturday at his home in Prague. He was 94.
His son, Michal, confirmed the death.
A writer of more than 40 books, as well as a dissident, teacher and critic, Klima was deeply affected by an early experience in his life: incarceration as a boy by the Nazis at Terezin concentration camp north of Prague.
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