false 240976 39 In one of the finer modern ironies of the life-imitates-art sort, the country that Kundera seemed to be writing about when he talked about Czechoslovakia is, thanks to the latest political redefinitions, no longer precisely there. This kind of disappearance and reappearance is, partly, what Kundera explores in <i>The Book of Laughter and Forgetting</i>. In this polymorphous work -- now a novel, now autobiography, now a philosophical treatise -- Kundera discusses life, music, sex, philosophy, literature and politics in ways that are rarely politically correct, never classifiable but always original, entertaining and definitely brilliant. 3428728 book 1980 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting total:6546|5:2112|4:2656|3:1436|2:269|1:73| 6546 26103 8839 341 3 3 false false Mon Jun 25 13:48:55 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 25 13:48:55 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 2 false false Mon May 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 19 21:07:05 -0700 2008 Fri May 23 18:38:21 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Dec 25 22:03:18 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 26 01:14:08 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Nov 15 21:00:12 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 07 15:02:46 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Sep 08 00:25:16 -0700 2007 Mon May 26 00:34:48 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 28 15:43:48 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 17 18:53:46 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Mon Apr 16 00:19:15 -0700 2007 Mon Apr 16 00:23:22 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Aug 11 11:15:20 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 11 11:19:57 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 14:52:36 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 15:06:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed May 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 12:00:20 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 12:14:18 -0700 2009
After finishing the stupid semester, I needed a break and this book is such a breezy book to read that upon picking it up by chance and flipping through it, I couldn't put it down. (I read this book a long time...more...]]> 3 0 false true Sat Aug 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 12:49:19 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 08:27:41 -0700 2009 Against my will, I must read more short stories to finally get it - writers of short stories are depression junkies? They like to tell absurd tales of humiliation, loneliness, self-hate or self-love bordering on obscenity, egoism, blind idiocy? Really?!

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"a rewriter of history(:)... the Communist party, all political parties, all nations, all men. People are always shouting they want to create a better ...more...]]>