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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

A Novel

by Milan Kundera · 1979 · 320 pages

Chris Williamson
Chris Williamson
Recommended by 1 elite

Recommended by 1 Elite

Chris Williamson

About This Book

A novel composed of seven interconnected narratives that explore the nature of memory, political repression, and existential identity in communist Czechoslovakia. Through a blend of fiction, autobiography, and philosophical reflection, the work examines the tension between the personal urge to remember and the state-mandated desire to forget.

Genres

Psychology & BehaviorPhilosophyFiction & Literature

Topics

CommunismExileExistentialismIdentityLitostMemoryTotalitarianism

Book Details

Published

1979

Pages

320

Language

cs

ISBN

9780060932145

Audiobook Available

8h 25m
Narrated by Richmond Hoxie

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