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gptkbp:instanceOf
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novel
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gptkbp:adaptation
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none
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gptkbp:adaptedInto
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none
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gptkbp:author
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Milan Kundera
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gptkbp:character
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gptkb:Tamina
Milan Kundera
Mirek
Zdenka
Kundera's alter ego
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gptkbp:critical_reception
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positive
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gptkbp:cultural_impact
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significant
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gptkbp:followedBy
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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gptkbp:genre
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philosophical fiction
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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gptkbp:influenced
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gptkb:Kafka
Camus
Nabokov
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gptkbp:influences
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existentialism
absurdism
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gptkbp:inspiration
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Kundera's experiences
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gptkbp:ISBN
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978-0060974970
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gptkbp:language
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Czech
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gptkbp:motif
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love
loss
laughter
political oppression
forgetting
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gptkbp:narrativeStyle
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third-person
non-linear
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gptkbp:notableWork
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Milan Kundera
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gptkbp:pageCount
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320
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gptkbp:previousName
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Kniha smíchu a zapomnění
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gptkbp:publishedBy
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gptkb:France
1979
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gptkbp:publisher
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gptkb:Harper_&_Row
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gptkbp:setting
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gptkb:Czechoslovakia
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gptkbp:significance
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explores themes of memory and identity
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gptkbp:style
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lyrical
philosophical
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gptkbp:theme
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politics
identity
memory
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gptkbp:translatedInto
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English
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