The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
A Novel
On Sale: 04/07/1999
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
A Novel
On Sale: 04/07/1999
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About the Book
"An absolutely dazzling entertainment. . . . Arousing on every level—political, erotic, intellectual, and above all, humorous." —Newsweek
"The Book of Laughter and Forgetting calls itself a novel, although it is part fairy tale, part literary criticism, part political tract, part musicology, and part autobiography. It can call itself whatever it wants to, because the whole is genius." —New York Times
Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed, and experienced.
Critical Praise
"The Book of Laughter and Forgetting calls itself a novel, although it is part fairy tale, part literary criticism, part political tract, part musicology, and part autobiography. It can call itself whatever it wants to, because the whole is genius." — New York Times
"This book, as it bluntly calls itself, is brilliant and original, written with the purity and wit that invite us directly in." — John Updike
"A masterpiece." — Salman Rushdie
"An absolutely dazzling entertainment. . . . Arousing on every level—political, erotic, intellectual, and above all, humorous." — Newsweek
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Product Details
- ISBN: 9780060932145
- ISBN 10: 0060932147
- Imprint: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
- On Sale: 04/07/1999
- Pages: 320
- List Price:23.99 CAD
- BISAC1 : FICTION / Humorous / Black Humor
- BISAC2 : DRAMA / American / General
- BISAC3 : FICTION / Classics
- BISAC4 : FICTION / Literary