The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera is a novel in seven interlinked parts that blend narrative, essay, and reflection. Moving between personal stories and historical episodes, it examines how memory and forgetting shape individual lives and collective history. Through explorations of love, exile, laughter, and political repression, Kundera reveals the fragile boundaries between the private and the political, the intimate and the ideological. The result is a work that questions how identity is formed in a world where the past can be erased, manipulated, or lost.
Technical details
Pages: 318
Publication year: 2000 (Faber & Faber edition)
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Language: English
Original language: Czech
Translator: Michael Henry Heim
Author: Milan Kundera
