The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: Revised Edition

Kundera, Milan

ISBN 10: 0140096930 / ISBN 13: 9780140096934

Published by Penguin Books, 1987

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: Revised Edition
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140096930
• ISBN 13: 9780140096934
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

Offers a blend of stories, anecdotes, political history, and autobiography to create variations on several themes, including the power of laughter and the danger of forgetting

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.