The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/The_Book_of_Laughter_and_Forgetting
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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:novel
gptkbp:adaptedInto film (The Unbearable Lightness of Being, thematically related)
gptkbp:author gptkb:Milan_Kundera
gptkbp:awarded gptkb:Commonwealth_Club_of_California_Book_Award_(1980)
gptkbp:bannedIn gptkb:Czechoslovakia
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin gptkb:Czechoslovakia
gptkbp:genre fiction
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
gptkbp:ISBN 0-394-51286-6
gptkbp:literaryPeriod postmodernism
gptkbp:mainCharacter gptkb:Tamina
gptkb:Marketa
gptkb:Mirek
gptkb:Eva
gptkb:Karel
Jan
Kristyna
gptkbp:mainTheme memory
totalitarianism
laughter
forgetting
gptkbp:notableFor political themes
experimental structure
gptkbp:originalLanguage Czech
gptkbp:pages 314
gptkbp:publicationDate 1979
gptkbp:publisher gptkb:Éditions_Gallimard
gptkbp:setIn gptkb:Czechoslovakia
gptkbp:structure seven parts
gptkbp:title gptkb:Alfred_A._Knopf
gptkbp:translatedInto gptkb:Michael_Henry_Heim
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Milan_Kundera
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5