The book of laughter and forgetting audiobook milan. Milan kundera is a czech and french writer of czech origin who has lived in exile in france since 1975, where he became a naturalized french citizen in 1981. Milan kundera is the author of the novels the joke, farewell waltz, life is elsewhere, the book of laughter and forgetting, the unbearable lightness of being, and immortality, and the shortstory collection laughable lovesall originally written in czech. The book of laughter and forgetting by milan kundera anu. The book of laughter and forgetting summary part i. The ones who sink and fall, like kundera and tamina and mirek, bear the weight of all that has been forgotten. At one point, vlado clementis, standing next to the speaker, removes his fur hat. The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
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