Laughable Loves
Laughable Loves
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Published:
21 August, 2000
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Description
A dazzling collection of stories - originally banned in 1968 Prague - by a 'magnificent short-story writer' (NYT) and author of classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
'Kundera is a self-confessed hedonist in a world beset by politics . . . Marvellous.' Salman Rushdie
'Kundera's achievement has been to bring both private life and political life into one comic framework.' Ian McEwan
On holiday, a man and his girlfriend pretend she is a hitchhiking stranger - but their game soon makes them strangers to each other.
One young man reconnects with his grieving former lover, only to be shocked by her ageing body.
Two friends embark on an obsessive mission to seduce as many women as possible in the Eternal Chase.
A teacher fakes piety to seduce a devoutly religious girl: then jilts her and yearns for God.
In these celebrated stories, Kundera probes our darkest erotic impulses and most destructive sexual fantasies - while seducing us with his graceful, whimsical prose.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780571206926 |
| ISBN10 | 0571206921 |
| Number Of Pages | 304 |
| Item Weight | 247 g |
| Product Dimensions | 126 x 198 x 18 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Faber & Faber |
| Format | paperback |
| Edition | Main - Re-issue |
Media Reviews
An intellectual heavyweight and a pure literary virtuoso, Milan Kundera takes some of Freud's most cherished complexes and irreverently whirls them about in acts of legerdemain that capture our darkest, deepest human passions?The tales in Laughable Loves surprise and illuminate?Kundera's world is complex, full of mockeries and paradoxes. Life is often brutal and humiliating; it is often blasphemous, funny, irritating. -- Abe Ravitz, Cleveland Plain Dealer Milan Kundera offers a very special blend of sympathy and cynicism, irony and affability, that is unmatched in our literature. -- Thomas Joyce, Chicago Sun-Times Light, wry, and wise. -- John Skow, Time Buoyantly energetic and virtuosic. -- Walter Clemons, Newsweek
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Author's Bio
The French-Czech novelist Milan Kundera was born in the Czech Republic and has lived in France since 1975. He died in Paris in 2023.