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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Paperback
Series: Perennial Classics, Book 53
HumorClassic FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $18.99
ISBN13: 9780060932145
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: Apr 7 1999
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
An absolutely dazzling entertainment. . . . Arousing on every level--political, erotic, intellectual, and above all, humorous. --Newsweek
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
Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the landmark literary philosophical novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed, and experienced.
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