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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Study Guide

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by Milan Kundera
About 43 pages (12,763 words)

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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Study Guide consists of approx. 43 pages of summaries and analysis on The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera. Browse the literature study guide below:

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In February 1948, Klement Gottwald steps out onto a balcony to address the Czech people below. Because his head is bare and it is cold outside, his associate Clementis gives him his fur hat. Years later, Clementis will be considered a traitor to the country and erased from its collective memory, but his hat will stay on Gottwald's head in the pictures forever. Flash forward to 1971 and a man named Mirek is driving to see Zdena, a woman that he had an affair with 25 years ago. He is being followed since he is now considered an enemy of the state, a fact he is very aware of, but still persistently drives to meet this woman on the pretense that he wants his old love letters back from her. (read more)
      Part I: Lost Letters
      Part II: Mama
      Part III: The Angels
      Part IV: Lost Letters
      Part V: Litost
      Part VI: The Angels
      Part VII: The Border

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