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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
by Milan Kundera ; Aaron Asher
ISBN: 0060926082
ISBN-13: 9780060926083
Format: Paperback
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Summary
Tamina and her husband flee Czechoslovakia when the communists take power-and then he dies. Exiled in Switzerland, Tamina directs all her efforts toward recovering her dead husband's love letters, to keep her company in a strange land. Kundera uses this novel as a vehicle for his own thoughts on exile, totalitarianism, and politics, but also sex, music, art, and literature.
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Harpercollins
Published date: 1996
Size: 5.25 x 8 inches
Weight: 0.55 pounds
Pages: 312
Publisher's Notes
Commissioned and closely monitored by Milan Kundera himself, this new translation brings a clarity and unmatched fidelity to the author's original text. Widely held as a work of genius, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that first brought him to the forefront of the international literary scene. Rich in stories, characters and imaginative range, it was written while Kundera was still forbidden to publish in his home country of Czechoslovakia, which was then behind the Iron Curtain. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of modern existence -- from the posthumous erasure of "enemies" of communism from the historical record, to the subtle agony of the fading memory of a lost love, to the bizarre sexlessnes of modern promiscuity -- are explored with boldness, subversive humor and the magical power of fiction.
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan Kundera Aaron Asher
A nice copy. Gently used. softly worn around edges. All pages and cover clear of markings. Binding solid and tight. No creases. If you choose standard shipping, it could take up to 14 BUSINESS days and in rare cases 21. ( more information) Offered by Once Sold Tales (United States)
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Translated from the French By Aaron Asher)
Kundera, Milan
New York: HarperPerennial, 1996 312pp. Cover shows light shelf-wear; interior is clean and tight. Original price remains on cover. From John Leonard's review in The New York Times: "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting calls itself a novel, although it is part fairy tale, part literary criticism, part political tract, part musicology, and part autobiography. It can call itself whatever it wants to, because the whole is genius.". Paperback. Good. ( more information) Offered by Pages of Knowledge Book Co. / Cover To Cover Book Co. Inc. (United States)
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Kundera, Milan; Asher, Aaron (Translated by)
New York: HarperPerennial; HarperCollins, 1996 312 pp.; 21 cm. First published, 1979. Translated from the French. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. "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 Franco-Czech novelist Milan Kundera was born in Brno and has lived in France, his second homeland, since 1975. He is the author of the novels The Joke, Life Is Elsewhere, Farewell Waltz, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and the short-story collection Laughable Loves - all originally in Czech. His most recent novels, Slowness, Identity, and Ignorance, as well as his nonfiction works The Art of the Novel and Testaments Betrayed, were originally written in French." - Publisher.. 5th printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by Left Coast Books (United States)
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Kundera, Milan; Asher, Aaron
Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Harpercollins, 1996 Softcover. Sound, clean & nice copy, light rubbing/edgewear to wraps.. Trade Paperback. Good/n/a. ( more information) Offered by The Book Women (United States)
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Kundera, Milan; Asher, Aaron
Harpercollins, 1996. Trade Paperback. Good++. No creases in spine, no slant, no rips, tight binding, light and even toning, 312 unmarked pages, entertaining fiction first appeared in late 1970s. ( more information) Offered by Taos Books (United States)
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan Kundera
HarperCollins. Like New. In one of the finer modern ironies of the life-imitates-art sort, the country that Kundera seemed to be writing about when he talked about Czechoslovakia is, thanks to the latest political redefinitions, no longer precisely there. This kind of disappearance and reappearance is, partly, what Kundera explores in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. In this polymorphous work -- now a novel, now autobiography, now a philosophical treatise -- Kundera discusses life, music, sex, philosophy, literature and politics in ways that are rarely politically correct, never classifiable but always original, enter. Like New . 320pp. ( more information) Offered by Driftless Books and Music (United States)
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Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Kundera, Milan; Asher, Aaron (translator)
New York, NY, U.S.A.: HarperCollins Publishers, 1996. 312 pgs; cover few scuffs. ISBN: 0060926082. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN FICTION FICTIONAL WORKS AUTHOR LITERARY. ( more information) Offered by Highway Book Shop (Canada)
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Kundera, Milan
Harpercollins. PAPERBACK. 0060926082 New with very slight shelf wear from time on shelf (like you'd see at a major chain). We ship daily, provide personalized customer service and want you to have a great experience purchasing from us. Thank you for your consideration. . New. ( more information) Offered by BennettBooksLtd (United States)
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