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THE BOOK OF LAUGHTER AND FORGETTING

THE BOOK OF LAUGHTER AND FORGETTING

MILAN KUNDERA

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Publisher:
FABER & FABER
Year of publication:
1996
Subject:
Classic fiction
ISBN:
978-0-571-17437-9
Pages:
312
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In this novel, Kundera whirls through comedy and tragedy, towards his central question: 'how does a person, any person, live today?'. Towards his answer he writes of politics, sex, literature, modern man's alienation and of their antidotes.

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