The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

The Book of Laugh and Forget is the first novel written by the famous Czech writer Milan Kundera after he immigrated to France. Tamina, a beautiful immigrant girl serving in a coffee shop, is fighting a desperate battle against the blurring of the memory of her dead husband, whom nothing and no one can replace. His story reflects the two basic facts of this book: the tragic experiment in Czechoslovakia (i.e. the famous Prague Spring, followed by the Soviet occupation) and life in the West. Kundera looks around these facts with a suspicious look. The seven chapters of the book, which seem independent of each other, follow each other like the stages of a journey. The same situations, the same questions combine into a single image, like a crescendo in music. Humor develops together with intense sadness. The vulnerability of eroticism, which can turn into a ridiculous pantomime at any moment, and the surprise it brings. And history turning into a race towards the end; Dedicated to the gods of oblivion, thoughts and reflections on the fate of the author and his country.



Number of Pages: 308

Print Year: 2016


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Can Yayınlari