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Staff Review: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

December 8, 2021 Words Worth Books

Title/Author: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera

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."

Reviewed by: Ingrid

In General Fiction Tags Literary Fiction, Short Stories, Modern Classics
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