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:
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. (
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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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