You get your money's worth with this novel. If highly charged
eroticism is your fancy, you can find it here. If your taste runs
to contemporary existentialism - the oblivion that faces those
ensnared by political ideology - you get that too. No-one writes
better than Kundera on what it is like to feel you have vanished
from the face of the earth. But it is also a masterly disquisition
on the nature of comedy; a treasurehouse of thought; living proof
that a story and philosophical reflection can co-exist to the
benefit of both. Review by Howard Jacobson, whose books include
'The Mighty Waltzer' (Kirkus UK)
'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.
General
| Imprint: |
Faber and Faber
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
May 1996 |
| Authors: |
Milan Kundera
|
| Translators: |
Aaron Asher
|
| Dimensions: |
198 x 126 x 21mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
312 |
| Edition: |
Main |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-571-17437-9 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
|
| LSN: |
0-571-17437-X |
| Barcode: |
9780571174379 |
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