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Book Description
Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the 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 inteContinue
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lrb published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010
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The Cold Comedian
The analogy of musical form is a beguiling siren for literary artists, and the rocks are white with their bones. Milan Kundera, a Czech writer in exile, is a virtuoso both of music and of fiction, and he has the talent, more unusual still, of control ... (read full critics)
nybooks published on Thu, 26 Aug 2010
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- English Books
- Paperback 312 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0571203876
- ISBN-13: 9780571203871
- Publisher: Faber & Faber Ltd
- Pub date: Mar 01, 2001
- Also available as: Hardcover
- In other languages: other languages
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| ISBN | Edition | List | Sale | Seller |
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| 9780571203871 | Paperback | $22.01 | -- | The Book Depository |
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Milan Kundera says of The Book of Laughter and Forgetting that ‘it is a novel about Tamina, and whenever Tamina is absent, it is a novel for Tamina.’ He says this in the novel, in which he himself appears and invents Tamina. Modern satirical fantasy, ... (read full critics)