The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Softcover

Kundera, Milan; Asher, Aaron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060926082 ISBN 13: 9780060926083

Publisher: Harpercollins, 1996

Synopsis

'This book is a novel in the form of variations. The various parts follow each other like the various stages of a voyage leading into the interior of a theme, the interior of a thought, the interior of a single, unique situation the understanding of which recedes from my sight into the distance. It is a book about laughter and about forgetting, about forgetting and about Prague, about Prague and about the angels.'

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the most secret of Kundera's novels. This new translation is the first to be fully authorized by Milan Kundera.

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Review:

""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""This book, as it bluntly calls itself, is brilliant and original, written with the purity and wit that invite us directly in."-- John Updike, "New York Times Book Review"

Book Description:

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera is the most secret of the acclaimed Czech writer's novels. This new translation is the first to be fully authorized by Milan Kundera.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0060926082
• ISBN 13: 9780060926083
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312