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Kundera opens with a story about gottwald, the first communist president of czechoslovakia, and clementis, later an enemy of the state. What instances of litost do you find in the novel, and in what contexts. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and. The book of laughter and forgetting is milan kunderas fourth novel, following the joke english translation, 1969, life is elsewhere 1974 and the farewell party 1976. You know youre in for a deep read when you see a line like this in a book. The book of laughter and forgetting download pdfepub milan.
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