The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

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gptkbp:instance_of gptkb:novel
gptkbp:adaptations gptkb:none
gptkbp:adapted_into gptkb:none
gptkbp:author gptkb:Milan_Kundera
gptkbp:available_formats gptkb:audiobook
ebook
hardcover
paperback
gptkbp:critical_reception positive
gptkbp:cultural_impact gptkb:significant
gptkbp:first_edition gptkb:1979
gptkbp:followed_by gptkb:The_Unbearable_Lightness_of_Being
gptkbp:genre literary fiction
philosophical fiction
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
gptkbp:influenced_by gptkb:Camus
gptkb:Kafka
gptkb:Sartre
gptkb:Nabokov
gptkbp:influences gptkb:existentialism
gptkb:postmodernism
gptkb:absurdism
gptkbp:inspired_by Kundera's experiences in Czechoslovakia
Kundera's experiences
gptkbp:isbn 978-0061148520
978-0-06-097499-8
gptkbp:language gptkb:Czech
gptkbp:motif gptkb:loss
gptkb:Fiction
gptkb:dreams
gptkb:exile
history
reality
nostalgia
self-discovery
memory loss
human experience
truth
laughter
existence
forgetting
gptkbp:narrative third-person
gptkbp:narrative_style non-linear
gptkbp:notable_characters gptkb:Tamina
gptkb:Marta
gptkb:Eda
gptkb:Milan
Mirek
Zdena
Milan's mother
gptkbp:page_count 320
288
gptkbp:published gptkb:1979
gptkbp:publisher gptkb:Harper_&_Row
gptkbp:related_works The Art of the Novel
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: A Novel
gptkbp:setting gptkb:Czechoslovakia
gptkbp:style lyrical
satirical
introspective
philosophical
gptkbp:themes gptkb:politics
gptkb:identity
gptkb:memory
love
gptkbp:title Kniha smíchu a zapomnění
gptkbp:translated_into gptkb:Michael_Henry_Heim
multiple languages
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:The_Joseph_Novels
gptkb:Friedrich_Torberg
gptkb:Milan_Kundera
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5