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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera

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Author Biography

Name: Milan Kundera
Birth Date: April 1, 1929
Place of Birth: Brno, Czechoslovakia
Nationality: Czech
Gender: Male
Occupations: author

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Biography of Milan Kundera
1019 words, approx. 3.4 pages
In his novels, the Czech-born author Milan Kundera (born 1929) sought to discover the answer to the question: What is the nature of existence" Milan Kundera was one of the most important and talented novelists to emerge from the death throes of the old C...
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Biography of Milan Kundera
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Milan Kundera is one of the few Czech writers who have achieved wide international recognition. In his native Czechoslovakia, Kundera has been regarded as an important author and intellectual since his early twenties. Each of his creative works and contr...
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Biography of Milan Kundera
9918 words, approx. 33.1 pages
Milan Kundera is one of the few Czech writers who have achieved wide international recognition. In his native Czechoslovakia, Kundera has been regarded as an important author and intellectual since his early twenties. Each of his creative works and contr...
 


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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Information
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Kniha smíchu a zapomnění) is a novel by Milan Kundera, published in 1979. Unusually, the book does not comprise a single narrative progression, but instead is composed of seven separate narratives united by common...


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Criticism and Essays
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Critical Essay by Ellen Pifer
5,903 words, approx. 20 pages
In the essay below, Pifer examines the way that Kundera's notion of the novel informs his narrative methods and practice, focusing mainly on The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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Critical Essay by Norman Podhoretz
5,333 words, approx. 18 pages
Dear Milan Kundera: About four years ago, a copy of the bound galleys of your novel. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, came into my office for review. As a magazine editor I get so many books every week in that form that unless I have a special reason I rarely do more than glance at their titles. In the case of The Book of Laughter and Forgetting I had no such special reason. By 1980 your name should have been more familiar to me, but in fact I had only a vague impression of you as an East European dissi...
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Critical Essay by Peter Kussi
1,976 words, approx. 7 pages
Milan Kundera writes fiction in order to ask questions. Could that have actually happened? Why was he so ashamed of her anyway? Then why did he make it all up? Why did he lie? Why is she so nervous? Has Mirek ever understood her? These questions, part of a dialogue between narrator and reader, or perhaps between narrator and author, are taken from the first pages of Kundera's latest novel [The Book of Laughter and Forgetting]…. (p. 206) Kundera interrogates his characters, poses questions to h...
 


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