Genre(s): Literary Fiction, Short Stories, Modern Classics
In 7 short stories, Kundera talks about the horror of forgotten history. My personal favourite short story is "Lost Letters (Part 4)", in which the protagonist Tamina struggles to remember her deceased husband and her hometown, Prague. The "Lost Letters" were her only connection left with this place. Readers go through this mental turmoil with her and together with the author, we lament the tragedy of the Czech and the loss of history. "The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."
