The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

This is the fourth novel in Milan Kundera’s literary career. It consists of seven stories that harmonize with each other, introducing us to Kundera’s wonderful world, a unique world that skillfully blends depth, intelligence, and philosophy on the one hand, and lightness, humor, playfulness, and humor on the other. Kundera himself says of this novel:
“This entire book takes the form of melodic variations, its parts following each other like the stages of a journey that leads to the depth of a theme, the depth of an idea, or to a single, unique situation that is difficult for me to grasp due to its enormity.
It is a novel about Tamina, and the moment Tamina disappears from view, it becomes a novel for Tamina. She is the main character, and she is also the main audience, and all the other stories are merely variations on her own story, converging in her life like a mirror. It is a novel about laughter and forgetting, about forgetting and Prague, about Prague and about angels.”