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 1999Showing 9 featured editions. View all 42 editions?
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Book of laughter and forgetting
1999, HarperPerennial
in English
- Perennial Classics ed.
0060932147 9780060932145
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
1983, Penguin, Penguin Books Ltd
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0140064168 9780140064162
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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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| December 19, 2023 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
| February 8, 2022 | Edited by kucharczyk | Change title to Czech |
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