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"An absolutely dazzling entertainment....Arousing on every levelpolitical, erotic, intellectual, and above all, humorous." -- Newsweek
"Deeply and impressively subversive, in more ways than one....Kundera's condemnation of modern life is broad, but his sympathy for those who create and suffer it is deep." -- Paul Gray, Time
In February 1948, the Communist leader Klement Gottwald stepped out on the balcony of a Baroque palace in Prague to harangue hundreds of thousands of citizens massed in Old Town Square. Read the first page
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This review is from: Book Of Laughter And Forgetting (Paperback)
Tremendous book of themes and ideas. Kundera leaves one's head spinning with his virtuosity. Plot takes a backseat to theme in The Book of L & F. Kundera is expanding the range of the common notion of the novel: he combines fragments, scenes, ideas, dreams, fantasies, facts, history, autobiography, and stories. It works. His analogies are wonderful and clear and personally relevant. I'll return time and again to reread passages about "litost." This acclamation is not to mislead one from the fact that Kundera can be a test, but the rewards are worth its taking.
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Brilliant,
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This review is from: Book Of Laughter And Forgetting (Paperback)
Brilliant in its conception and execution, like McCrae's Bark of the Dogwood or perhaps Kundera's other book, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Book of Laughter is a tour-de-force of virtuosity. The humor is wonderful in this book and Kundera's masterful way of telling a story is unsurpassed. I originally became aquainted with the author years ago when first introduced to the Unberable Lightness (the movie version) and have since become "hooked." This is great writing and should not be missed.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Let this grand storyteller carry you,
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This review is from: Book Of Laughter And Forgetting (Paperback)
This book is the first by Milan Kundera I have read. It was loaned to me by a friend after I expressed my interest in reading The Unbearable Lightness of Being, to which I was drawn simply by its title. She handed Laughter and Forgetting to me, saying off-handedly that it wasn't that great. Slightly disappointed, I kept it on a shelf. One morning, I woke up later than usual and as the sun shone through my window. It was one of those nothing-to-do sunny days, but too cold to leave home. I perused the titles on my shelves and because nothing else grabbed my attention, I opened Laughter and Forgetting and let my eyes half-wittingly latch onto the trails of words as Kundera unleashes his multi-faceted "novel". Admittedly, despite my resistance (because of the loaner's negative remark), I inhaled the first part. The feeling I acquired was one of enchantment, and marvel. My eyes wandered to the window, to where to late morning sun warmed the snowy landscape. I took a deep breath and returned to the book. By the end of the second part, I was not merely hopelessly hooked on the book, but as well, an ardent devotee of Kundera.The novel's artful and philosophical prose meanders through a flurry of 1970's contemporary ideas including democracy, fear, sexual roles, and are intertwined by Kundera's poetical portrayal of memory in the varying degrees of propoganda through personal interpretation of past experiences. Additionally, as the title suggests, laughter plays a part, suggested by the author first as the devilish opposition of order, and as the natural feminine influence.
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