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Title: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera ISBN: 0060932147 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: May, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.56
Rating: 5
Summary: The poetic confessions of a once-upon-a-time circle-dancer.
Comment: This novel (a novel of fragments and variations on a theme) concerns those concerned with recovering history, in the literal sense of covering over. Made up of seven parts, with only Kundera and a character named Tamina the revisited positions, the novel plays with the notion of musical variation and gives it literary expression. Kundera takes the familiar cords, the exile, the rebel, the man and the woman with A Past, the photograph, and the supposed "innocence" of children, and he plays them in a variety of combinations and tempos to highlight the subtlety in each note and the infinite variety and depth of each life. This is a novel in which Kundera stares fully at his own culpability in Czech politics and he does so at the novelistic moment of watching his father die. One of the most poignant moments in the book, and one which underlines Kundera's notions here about Utopias, ideals, and aspirations, is that "while we seek the infinity of the stars, we lose the infinity of our fathers." The book circles around this notion of creating the ideal world and aspiring to the ultimate human organization, and sends in pointed and damaging attacks on the dehumanization of such processes and aspirations. It is, to my mind, the finest of Kundera's novels (though _Slowness_ comes a close second). It is seemingly non-linear, asks more questions than it provides answers, and will demand the acute attention of the reader, but, in the end, it is worth every strain of concentration
Rating: 5
Summary: kundera is a magician of words
Comment: an extraordinary book. it's been said that all great art should aspire to the quality of music and this book is a glorious musical composition that is so funny, so beautiful and so amazingly dead on. kundera writes of humankind with such tenderness and insight, that you have to gasp when you recogonize your own most obscure, convoluted, secret thought right there on the page. read it slow. savor it's truths. but mostly read it and enjoy. and laugh!
Rating: 5
Summary: WOW
Comment: This novel is easily worthy of more than 5 stars. It is the most unique and intellectually stimulating book I have encountered in all my history of reading. The way Kundera weaves so many seperate stories, anecdotes and historical facts along with some pretty heavy philosophical theory into the novel to make his views come alive is amazing. The section Litost (about the poets) was mesmerizing. This book has changed my view on life, love, laughter and history.
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Title: The Unbearable Lightness of Being : A Novel by Milan Kundera ISBN: 0060932139 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Immortality by Milan Kundera ISBN: 0060932384 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Identity: A Novel by Milan Kundera ISBN: 0060930314 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Laughable Loves by Milan Kundera ISBN: 0060997036 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Ignorance : A Novel by Milan Kundera ISBN: 0060002093 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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