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Loading... The book of laughter and forgetting (original 1978; edition 2000)by Milan, Kundera, Aaron Asher (TÕlkija)
Work InformationThe Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera (1978)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A classic (there’s that word again) piece of literature related to the 1968 Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia. All of Kundera’s works are great, and being a big fan of Czech authors, I recommend everything related to this author and topic. That being said, it’s dangerous to label a genre according to the nationality of its authors or the historical events it encompasses. Kundera writes about the nature of freedom and responsibility, of loyalty, of action, and the interaction of individuals with their society. These themes are relevant to all eras of history, including the present. ( ) There is a shimmering brilliance in this book by Milan Kundera. The opening paragraph of the first story hooks you, and I don't want to spoil the book. From a story about life in a dictatorship to the second story detailing the strange sexual and emotional lives of people, and from there on to other stories, you are in for a treat. That is a long sentence. You enter the world of the characters in each story, and they spring to life. The writing style is deceptively simple. Don't let that fool you. There are depths, which you sense only if you are acutely aware of the people who surround you. Their language, their hypocrisy, their clothing, their society, their anxieties. The stories are short, and each is complete in itself. Is contained inHas as a student's study guideNotable Lists
Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. 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. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)891.8635Literature Literature of other languages Literature of east Indo-European and Celtic languages West and South Slavic languages (Bulgarian, Slovene, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, and Macedonian) Czech Czech fiction 1900–1989LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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