by Milan Kundera · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571163373
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«The Book of Laughter and Forgetting» is the novel by Milan Kundera, published by Faber and Faber in paperback (228 pages, in English).
Kundera combines comic and tragic registers to explore how a person lives in the contemporary world. In seven connected parts, the narrative pauses on politics, sex, literature and modern alienation, and plays with the scale and order of events to offer a fresh view of human existence.
Work originally published in 1979 in Czech as «Kniha smíchu a zapomnění». The English translation is by Michael Henry Heim. It received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction in 1984.
Intended for readers of Central European fiction, philosophical fiction and contemporary classics.
Milan Kundera was a Czech and French novelist. Kundera went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981. His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.
