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The book of laughter and forgetting / Milan Kundera ; translated by Aaron Asher.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
AF KUND	Adult Fiction		Campsie .	. On Loan .	28 Sep 2024

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Field name	Details
ISBN	057117437X
ISBN	9780571174379 (paperback)
Name	Kundera, Milan author.
Title	The book of laughter and forgetting / Milan Kundera ; translated by Aaron Asher.
Published	London : Faber and Faber, 1996.
Description	vii, 312 pages ; 20 cm.
Summary	Commissioned and closely monitored by Milan Kundera himself, this new translation brings a clarity and unmatched fidelity to the author's original text. Widely held as a work of genius, "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" is the novel that first brought him to the forefront of the international literary scene. Rich in stories, characters and imaginative range, it was written while Kundera was still forbidden to publish in his home country of Czechoslovakia, which was then behind the Iron Curtain. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of modern existence -- from the posthumous erasure of "enemies" of communism from the historical record, to the subtle agony of the fading memory of a lost love, to the bizarre sexlessnes of modern promiscuity -- are explored with boldness, subversive humor and the magical power of fiction.
Subjects	Czech fiction -- 20th century -- Translations into English
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Czech fiction -- 20th century -- Translations into English . Authors: Kundera, Milan .