An edition of Kniha smíchu a zapomnění (1979)

El libro de la risa y el olvido

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An edition of Kniha smíchu a zapomnění (1979)

El libro de la risa y el olvido

2a ed
  • 3.64 ·
  • 14 Ratings
  • 66 Want to read
  • 8 Currently reading
  • 14 Have read

En El libro de la risa y el olvido, la primera obra del gran escritor checo escrita fuera de su país, Kundera muestra una historia de exilio que contiene dos verdades: la experiencia trágica de Praga y la vida en el mundo occidental. Las siete partes de la obra, a las que el autor llama "novela con variaciones," se suceden como las etapas de un viaje: idénticos problemas y situaciones progresan en crescendo hasta unirse en una sola imagen.

Tamina, a quien el exilio obliga a trabajar como camarera, lucha desesperadamente contra el olvido que empieza ya a difuminar el recuerdo de su marido, muerto y a todas luces irreemplazable. El texto es excepcionalmente vivo en contrastes: a una situación política suceden escenas de un erotismo ambiguo y frágil que en cualquier momento puede transformarse en risible pantomima; el relato onírico alterna con una enorme farsa de poetas ebrios que intercambian frases tan incongruentes como insultantes; el humor aparece tenido de profunda tristeza y el vértigo de la Historia es una carrera amenazante.

Desde una escéptica perspectiva, Milan Kundera persigue en sus obras un mismo proyecto estético: la unión de los imposibles (lo mas serio y lo mas frívolo, lo mas real y lo mas lúdico)

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Publisher
Seix Barral
Language
Spanish
Pages
327

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Book of laughter and forgetting
Book of laughter and forgetting
1999, HarperPerennial
in English - Perennial Classics ed.
Cover of: The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting
The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting
1996, Faber & Faber
Cover of: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
1996, HarperPerennial
in English
Cover of: Le livre du rire et de l'oubli
Le livre du rire et de l'oubli
1987, Gallimard
in French - Nouv. éd. / rev. par l'auteur.
Cover of: The book of laughter and forgetting
The book of laughter and forgetting
1986, Penguin Books
in English
Cover of: El libro de la risa y el olvido
El libro de la risa y el olvido
1984, Seix Barral
in Spanish - 2a ed
Cover of: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
1983, Penguin, Penguin Books Ltd
in English
Cover of: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
1982, Faber
in English
Cover of: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
1981, Penguin Books
in English
Cover of: Kniha smíchu a zapomnění
Kniha smíchu a zapomnění
1981, Sixty-Eight Publishers
in Czech

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Barcelona

Edition Notes

Translation of: Kniha smíchu a zapomnění

Series
Novela

The Physical Object

Pagination
327 p. ;
Number of pages
327

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22811614M
Internet Archive
ellibrodelarisay00kund
ISBN 10
8432204145
Library Thing
5158
Goodreads
1459102

First Sentence

"In February 1948, the Communist leader Klement Gottwald stepped out on the balcony of a Baroque palace in Prague to harangue hundreds of thousands of citizens massed in Old Town Square."

Work Description

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 general. The stories also contain elements found in the genre of magic realism. - Wikipedia

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