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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 integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed, and experienced.
The French-Czech novelist Milan Kundera was born in the Czech Republic and lived in France since 1975. He died in Paris in 2023.
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While best known for his novels, Milan Kundera was also a poet, essayist, critic and philosopher, making him a rare …
While best known for his novels, Milan Kundera was also a poet, essayist, critic and philosopher, making him a rare …
Read an extract from Milan Kundera's essay collection, A Kidnapped West, out now in hardback.
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