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Binding: Paperback
Fabric Type: 9780571203871
Legal Disclaimer: 0571203876
Maximum Color Depth: Faber & Faber Ltd
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Region Code: 312
Total External Bays Free: 2001-03
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com 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.
Product Description:
Commissioned and closely monitored by Milan Kundera himself, this new translation brings a clarity and unmatched fidelity to the author's original text. Widely held as a work of genius, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that first brought him to the forefront of the international literary scene. Rich in stories, characters and imaginative range, it was written while Kundera was still forbidden to publish in his home country of Czechoslovakia, which was then behind the Iron Curtain. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of modern existence from the posthumous erasure of "enemies" of communism from the historical record, to the subtle agony of the fading memory of a lost love, to the bizarre sexlessnes of modern promiscuity are explored with boldness, subversive humor and the magical power of fiction.
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I feel bad for admitting that I was a little disappointed with this book. I enjoyed the varying stories, the multitude of characters, situations, etc. The manner in which Kundera writes is definitely captivating; it's almost enchanting. I couldn't put this book down, I became involved in the stories and yet, it lacked... SOMETHING.
The thing is, I read The Unbearable Lightness of Being not long ago and as I read that book, I was so astonished at how well thoughts and ideas were translated ... Read More
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Some writers you have to have read to take yourself seriously as a person. With that in mind I had 'Unbearable Lightness' on my list. But after having been recommended 'Laughter/Forgetting', opted for that instead.
I know this is a really clever novel full of symbolism, political/historical commentary and philosophical musings. I know that others rave about it. I know it hints to Nietzsche, Sartre and Kafka, but, I am sorry Mr Kundera, this lowly teacher in the North East of England just could not get ... Read More
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This book is great in the way that Laurence Sterne's _A Sentimental Journey_ is great: it is slender, full of delicacy and yet extremely erotic, immediate, and just about perfect. Indeed, I think it's stronger than the more famous _The Unbearable Lightness of Being_.
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I had a modernist/post-modernist class in college and we read this and I enjoyed it very much. It was a bit of a break from some of the difficult novels we were reading. Kept the book for years and recently re-read and got through half of it. For me it is a book best experienced when you are young. All the impressions, ideas, romantic/sexual stuff seems to have the depth of someone around college age. No longer young I was bored, but four stars for my remembrance of college pursuits.
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"To laugh is to live profoundly" (p. 79).
Milan Kundera's Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Kniha smíchu a zapomnìní) was his first publication after he relocated to France in 1975. Published before Kundera's most famous novel, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, the non-traditional "novel" consists of several separate narratives united by common philosophical themes of life, sex, music, literature, and political opposition to the communism. The first section of the book ("Lost Letters") tells ... Read More
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