The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Paperback, Main)

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
LSN:	0-571-17437-X
Barcode:	9780571174379

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