Book of laughter and forgetting
by Milan Kundera
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Analyzes and examines various aspects of human existence through seven integrated stories.
Rich in its stories, character, 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 its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed, and experienced.
This new translation, approved by the author, gives fresh luster to this great work.
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Czech fiction, Translations into English, Fiction, Social conditions, Czechs, English fiction, Translations from Czech, Black humor, 18.56 Czech language and/or literature, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Translated from Czech, Romance literature, Fiction, humorous, general, Literature--translations into english, Pq2671.u47 b6613 1999, Pg5039.21.u6 k613 1999, Czech literature, Slovak literature| Edition | Availability |
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Das Buch vom Lachen und Vergessen
Nov 27, 2014, FISCHER Taschenbuch
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El Libro De La Risa Y El Olvido
June 30, 2005, Seix Barral
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in Spanish
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Book of Laughter and Forgetting
March 2001, Faber & Faber Ltd
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in English
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El Libro de La Risa y El Olvido
August 2000, Editorial Seix Barral
Paperback
in Spanish
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
May 1, 1999, Harper Perennial Modern Classics
in English
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
May 1, 1999, Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Paperback
in English
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Book of laughter and forgetting
1999, HarperPerennial
in English
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Le Livre Du Rire Et De Loubli
March 1999, Gallimard French
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in Spanish
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The Book of Laughter & Forgetting: A Novel
August 1996, Borgo Pr
Hardcover
in English
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El Libro De LA Risa Y El Olvido
September 1995, Planeta Pub Corp
Paperback
- Spanish edition
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The book of laughter and forgetting
1994, HarperPerennial
in English
- 1st HarperPerennial ed.
006099701X 9780060997014
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Das Buch vom Lachen und Vergessen.
March 1, 1992, Carl Hanser
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in German
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El\Libro de la Risa y el Olvido
October 1, 1991, French & European Pubns
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: Revised Edition
March 3, 1987, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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in English
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Le Livre de Rire et de l'Oubli
October 1, 1987, French & European Pubns
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Le livre du rire et de l'oubli
1987, Gallimard
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: Revised Edition
March 3, 1987, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Le Livre du rire et de l'oubli
September 12, 1985, Gallimard
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in French
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
1983, Penguin, Penguin Books Ltd
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
1981, Penguin Books
in English and Czech
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The book of laughter and forgetting
1980, A. A. Knopf
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"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."
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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 general. The stories also contain elements found in the genre of magic realism. - Wikipedia
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