The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting

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The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting

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Author : Milan Kundera
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2020-11-09

The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting written by Milan Kundera and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-09 with Fiction categories.

'A masterpiece' (Salman Rushdie) by the author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being. 'It took the temperature of the age as no other book did. It was the great novel of the end of European Communism: a novel of ideas and eroticism, the surreal and the naturalistic.' Howard Jacobson 'One is torn between profound pleasure in the novel's execution and wonder at the pain that inspired it.' Ian McEwan One freezing day in 1948, Klement Gottwald addresses Prague, wearing his comrade Clementis' fur cap - and Communist Czechoslovakia is born. But after being hanged for treason, Clementis is airbrushed out of propaganda photographs. All that remains is a bare wall, and his cap. So begins an unforgettable voyage through seven narratives, interspersed with luminous meditations on politics, philosophy, music and history. A dissident seeks his first lover - now a Party loyalist - to persuade her to return his romantic letters. A married couple manages their ménage-à-trois as Mother moves in. A clandestine horoscope writer is questioned. An émigré widow struggles to reconstruct memories of her late husband, before finding herself on an island of children. A butcher's wife embarks on an affair with a poetic student. And one man prepares to cross the border . . . What readers are saying: 'Kundera embrace politics, sex, philosophy and history, with a seen-it-all cynicism that nevertheless manages to be fascinating and even uplifting ... It was addictive and fun, sexy and cool, easy to read, and made me feel brighter, switched on, and more alive.' 'You must read this novel. Can't tell you about it, you just have to do it yourself. Its bonkers-brilliant! Phantasmagoric originality like this comes very seldom in a reader's so-sweet life.' 'Kundera's unique writing style comes as a revelation ... This holds a special place in my reading history as the one book that I instantly began re-reading as soon as I finished it.' 'Absolutely enchanted me. It's such an unique novel. It speaks of so many things, from communism and regimes to love and art. For me personally, it is a perfect book.' 'I am not going to spoil the story here, but while the story is not supernatural in any way, it takes on a fantastical flavor, full of mysteries and strange emotions ... It is obvious that Kundera has thought a lot about life, about the meaning of life, and lets the reader in on his secrets.' 'Such a unique writer, Kundera! What a way he has to shine the brightest light on the deepest corners of human psyche.'

Milan Kundera

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Author : Harold Bloom
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2009

Milan Kundera written by Harold Bloom and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.

Presents a collection of critical essays about the work of Milan Kundera.

The Language Of Fiction In A World Of Pain

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Author : Barbara J. Eckstein
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 1990-10

The Language Of Fiction In A World Of Pain written by Barbara J. Eckstein and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-10 with Literary Criticism categories.

This book offers new and provocative readings of Milan Kundera's Book of Laughter and Forgetting, J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians and Life and Times of Michael K, selected short fiction of Nadine Gordimer and Grace Paley, Ibuse Masuji's Black Rain, John Hawkes's Travesty, and others.

Merriam Webster S Encyclopedia Of Literature

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Author : Merriam-Webster, Inc
language : en
Publisher: Merriam-Webster
Release Date : 1995

Merriam Webster S Encyclopedia Of Literature written by Merriam-Webster, Inc and has been published by Merriam-Webster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Literary Criticism categories.

Describes authors, works, and literary terms from all eras and all parts of the world.

The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting

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Author : Khushwant Singh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004-08-01

The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting written by Khushwant Singh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-01 with categories.

`This book is a novel in the form of variations. The various parts follow each other like the various stages of a voyage leading into the interior of a theme, the interior of a thought, the interior of a single, unique situation the understanding of which recedes from my sight into the distance. It is a book about laughter and about forgetting, about forgetting and about Prague, about Prague and about the angels.' The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the most secret of Kundera's novels. This new translation is the first to be authorized by Milan Kundera.

Kundera Or The Memory Of Desire

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Author : Eva Le Grand
language : en
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Release Date : 1999

Kundera Or The Memory Of Desire written by Eva Le Grand and has been published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

This is more than a literary critique — it is a work of perception, of analysis that reveals a portrait of Kundera the novelist as one of the greatest demystifiers of our time. This significant work deals with all of Milan Kundera’s novels up to his most recent work, Slowness, which marks the beginning of a new phase of his writing. It is the first work that studies Kundera as a novelist, rather than a philosopher or intellectual guide, and the only one that diverges from the beaten path in examining and in reflecting on the composition and style of these novels, to discern the underlying humanity and originality of the work as a whole and to finally establish the connections and correlation within and between the novels — connections that conventional criticism can never reveal.

A History Of English Laughter

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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-11-01

A History Of English Laughter written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-01 with Literary Criticism categories.

Is there a ‘history’ of laughter? Or isn’t laughter an anthropological constant rather and thus beyond history, a human feature that has defined humanity as homo ridens from cave man and cave woman to us? The contributors to this collection of essays believe that laughter does have a history and try to identify continuities and turning points of this history by studying a series of English texts, both canonical and non-canonical, from Anglosaxon to contemporary. As this is not another book on the history of the comic or of comedy it does not restrict itself to comic genres; some of the essays actually go out of their way to discover laughter at the margins of texts where one would not have expected it all – in Beowulf, or Paradise Lost or the Gothic Novel. Laughter at the margins of texts, which often coincides with laughter from the margins of society and its orthodoxies, is one of the special concerns of this book. This goes together with an interest in ‘impure’ forms of laughter – in laughter that is not the serene and intellectually or emotionally distanced response to a comic stimulus which is at the heart of many philosophical theories of the comic, but emotionally disturbed and troubled, aggressive and transgressive, satanic and sardonic laughter. We do not ask, then, what is comic, but: who laughs at and with whom where, when, why, and how?

Aesthetic Politics

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Author : F. R. Ankersmit
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1996

Aesthetic Politics written by F. R. Ankersmit and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Philosophy categories.

Taking as its point of departure a sharp critique of Rawls's influential "A Theory of Justice," this book looks at politics from an aesthetic perspective.

The Complicit Text

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Author : Ivan Stacy
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2020-12-10

The Complicit Text written by Ivan Stacy and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-10 with Literary Criticism categories.

The Complicit Text: Failures of Witnessing in Postwar Fiction identifies the causes of complicity in the face of unfolding atrocities by examining the works of Albert Camus, Milan Kunera, Kazuo Ishiguro, W. G. Sebald, Thomas Pynchon, and Margaret Atwood. Ivan Stacy argues that complicity often stems from narrative failures to bear witness to wrongdoing. However, literary fiction, he contends, can at once embody and examine forms of complicity on three different levels: as a theme within literary texts, as a narrative form, and also as it implicates readers themselves through empathetic engagement with the text. Furthermore, Stacy questions what forms of non-complicit action are possible and explores the potential for productive forms of compromise. Stacy discusses both individual dilemmas of complicity in the shadow of World War II and collective complicity in the context of contemporary concerns, such as the hegemony of neoliberalism and the climate emergency.

The Art Of Memory In Exile Vladimir Nabokov Milan Kundera

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Author : hana pichova
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
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The Art Of Memory In Exile Vladimir Nabokov Milan Kundera written by hana pichova and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.