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 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera
 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera ... Faber and FaberNewest Review: ... life experience including the (historical) dismantling of the communist block and my own (personal) emigration, I picked up ... more ... The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, one of the titles I have not read before, expecting a different experience. But it wasn't: I still read, I appreciated (probably more than I had done twenty years ago) and I got annoyed (even more than twenty years ago).
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting presents itself as a novel, but it really is a collection of short stories, with only some of them sharing any characters or settings. The link, which justifies - at least in some experimentalist sense - the label of a novel, ...more |
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera: Vintage Kundera (665 words)
by - written on 04/10/09 (Very useful, 16 readings)
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It's with a somehow guilty feeling that I admit that I have never been particularly fond of Milan Kundera. He's certainly a very good writer and undoubtedly a very intelligent man capable of interesting philosophical insights. All those qualities contributed to a cult status accorded to Kundera, compounded by the frisson of political subversion - never a harmful thing for a writer from what used to be known as Eastern Europe (but which returned to its status as Middle (or Central) Europe with the fall of the Iron Curtain). Reading Kundera was the Done Thing, despite (or maybe because of) the official ban on his books. The first Kundera novels I read were ... Read the complete review
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