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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

By Milan Kundera
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is a rich and imaginative novel by Milan Kundera, blending elements of fairy tale, literary criticism, political reflection, musicology, and autobiography. Through seven interconnected parts, it explores various facets of human existence, examining, analysing, and experiencing life in a unique and philosophical manner.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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Ideal for readers who appreciate literary fiction with philosophical depth, and those interested in politically charged and intellectually stimulating narratives.

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The only authorized translation of the bestselling masterpiece by one of the greatest authors of our time, "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" is part fairy tale, part literary criticism, part political tract, part musicology, and part autobiography.

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"An absolutely dazzling entertainment... Arousing on every level—political, erotic, intellectual, and above all, humorous." —Newsweek

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting calls itself a novel, although it is part fairy tale, part literary criticism, part political tract, part musicology, and part autobiography. It can call itself whatever it wants to, because the whole is genius." —New York Times

Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the landmark literary philosophical 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 emphasised, newly examined, analysed, and experienced.

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ISBN: 9780060932145

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 April 1999

Country: United States

Imprint: HarperPerennial

Audience: General / adult

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Weight: 0g

Pages: 320

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About the Author

The Franco-Czech novelist Milan Kundera (1929-2023) was born in Brno and lived in France, his second homeland, since 1975 until his death. He is the author of the novels The Joke, Life Is Elsewhere, Farewell Waltz, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and the short story collection Laughable Loves--all originally in Czech. His more recent novels, Slowness, Identity, Ignorance, and The Festival of Insignificance, as well as his nonfiction works, The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain, and Encounter, were originally written in French.

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