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Author milan kundera knows the truth of this statement firsthand. The book of laughter and forgetting by milan kundera is a novel which was published first in france in the year 1979. Kundera has made it unequivocally clear that he should be regarded as a french novelist and his books should be canonised as french literature. In part five, kundera defines litost as a state of torment created by the sudden sight of ones own misery. The book of laughter and forgetting by milan kundera goodreads. The political situation in the former country of czechoslovakia now the. But the laughter in kundera s world is often the bitterest form of human expression. The ring dancers in the book of laughter and forgetting soar into the heavens with very little to hold them back.
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