This story is not allegory. But my book is a polyphony in which various stories mutually explain, illumine, complement each other. The basic event of the book is the story of totalitarianism, which deprives people of memory and thus retools them into a nation of children.
Books The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
- Author
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Milan Kundera
- Year
- 1980
- Publisher
- Knopf
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It’s the unity of the themes and their variations that gives coherence to the whole. Is it a novel? Yes. A novel is a meditation on existence, seen through imaginary characters.
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Theories of laughter and of blackbird populations occur, and yet there are no digressions. Everything is beautifully and amazingly in place.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting