The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Kundera Milan Translated From The Czech By Michael Henry Heim

ISBN 10: 0394508963 / ISBN 13: 9780394508962

Published by Knopf, New York, 1981

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Very Good With Slight Tanning Around The Board Edges And A Bump To The Front Foredge, Owners Name To The Fep . In A Poor Jacket With Nicked Ends And Two Holes On The Front Pp 228.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
• Publisher: Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394508963
• ISBN 13: 9780394508962
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Reprint
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Poor
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

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Synopsis

, 228 pages

Review

In one of the finer modern ironies of the life-imitates-art sort, the country that Kundera seemed to be writing about when he talked about Czechoslovakia is, thanks to the latest political redefinitions, no longer precisely there. This kind of disappearance and reappearance is, partly, what Kundera explores in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. In this polymorphous work -- now a novel, now autobiography, now a philosophical treatise -- Kundera discusses life, music, sex, philosophy, literature and politics in ways that are rarely politically correct, never classifiable but always original, entertaining and definitely brilliant.