Paperback, 228 pages
English language
Published March 3, 1987 by Penguin Books.
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Czech: Kniha smíchu a zapomnění) is a novel by Milan Kundera, published in France in 1979. It is composed of seven separate narratives united by some common themes. The book considers the nature of forgetting as it occurs in history, politics and life in general. The stories also contain elements found in the genre of magic realism.
Subjects
- Modern fiction
- Short stories
- Fiction - General
- Fiction
- General
- Fiction / General