Name: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Price: 486.00 TWD
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Author: Milan Kundera
ISBN: 9780571174379

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Milan Kundera

Publisher

Faber and Faber

Year

1996

Language

English

Pages

320

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780571174379

Edition No.

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Milan Kundera (Author) · Faber and Faber · Paperback

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Synopsis "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting "

'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.

Milan Kundera

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Milan Kundera (/'mɪlan 'kundɛra/ Brno, April 1, 1929-Paris, July 11, 2023) was a Czech novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Since 1975, he lived with his wife in France, where he acquired citizenship in 1987.

Kundera's most famous work is The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Before the Velvet Revolution of 1989, the communist regime in Czechoslovakia banned his books. He led a low-profile life and rarely spoke to the media. He was thought to be a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature and was also nominated for other awards.

He received the Jerusalem Prize in 1985, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 1987, and the Herder Prize in 2000. In 2021, he was awarded the Order of Merit by the president of Slovenia.

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