Laughable Loves

by Milan Kundera (Author), Milan Kundera (Author), Suzanne Rappaport (Translator)

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This collection contains stories about the sport of love - Don Juanism, ageing, male and female power and seductions undertaken for all kinds of intriguing motives. Milan Kundera is author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting.

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This collection contains stories about the sport of love - Don Juanism, ageing, male and female power and seductions undertaken for all kinds of intriguing motives. Milan Kundera is author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 21 Aug 2000
ISBN 10: 0571206921
ISBN 13: 9780571206926
Book Overview: Laughable Loves by Milan Kundera is a collection of seven masterful short stories which were banned upon their appearance in 1968.

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

Author Bio

The French-Czech novelist Milan Kundera was born in the Czech Republic and has lived in France since 1975. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed and bestselling novels The Joke, Life is Elsewhere, The Farewell Waltz, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Immortality, and the short-story collection Laughable Loves -- all originally in Czech. His more recent novels , Slowness, Identity, and Ignorance, as well as his nonfiction works, The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain, and Encounter, were originally written in French.