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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Czech: Kniha smíchu a zapomnění) is a novel by Milan Kundera, published in France in 1979. It is composed of seven separate narratives united by some common themes. The book considers the nature of forgetting as it occurs in history, politics, and life in
Jan 1, 1979 · Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970's. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than just its historical implications.
Apr 7, 1999 · Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than its historical implications.
Apr 7, 1999 · Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than its historical implications.
- Milan Kundera
Oct 9, 2022 · Set in postwar Czechoslovakia in the aftermath of the Stalinist purges of World War II, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is “a novel in the form of variations” that explores how totalitarianism affects individual and collective, national and personal, memories.
Jan 1, 1996 · The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is an appropriate and well-fitting title for this exceptional novel. Milan Kundera, while now deceased, lives on in grand prose, in this, his first novel released internationally in the 1970s.
- Milan Kundera
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, novel by Milan Kundera, written in Czech as Kniha smíchu a zapomnění but originally published in French as Le Livre du rire et de l’oubli (1979). The political situation in the former country of Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic and Slovakia), where history.
Apr 7, 1999 · Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than its historical implications.
Apr 7, 1999 · The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: A Novel. Milan Kundera. Harper Collins, Apr 7, 1999 - Fiction - 320 pages. Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and...
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. Milan Kundera. HarperPerennial, 1994 - Fiction - 228 pages. Part autobiography, part fairy tale, this internationally acclaimed bestseller is "absolutely...
