The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Seven parts, some narrative and some essay, circle Czechoslovakia after 1968: a man airbrushed out of an official photograph, a widow trying to recover her dead husband's letters, a woman who can no longer picture her father's face. Between them Kundera speaks in his own voice about politics, sex, angels and the untranslatable word litost. Variations on erasure: how regimes and lovers alike rewrite the past.
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- influenced by ↑ Don Quixote
- influenced by ↑ The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
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