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FICTION: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera -A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now, edited by Aliki Barnstone and Willis Barnstone -The Collected Stories of Eudora Welly, Eudora Welty - Crackers, Roy Blount...
FICTION: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera ∙ A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now, edited by Aliki Barnstone and Willis Barnstone ∙ The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, Eudora Welty ∙ Crackers, Roy Blount Jr. ∙ Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess ∙ Italian Folktales, selected and retold by Italo Calvino ∙ The Middle Ground, Margaret Drabble...
...BOOK OF LAUGHTER AND FORGETTING by Milan Kundera Translated by Michael Henry Heim Knopf; 228 pages...
Czechoslovakia's Communist government responded to the publication of this book in Europe last year by revoking the citizenship of Author Milan Kundera. The act was largely symbolic and gratuitous; Kundera had left his repressive homeland and settled in France in 1975. In their own thuggish way, though, the Czech authorities showed they were onto something when they bridled at Kundera's latest work. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is deeply and impressively subversive, in more ways than one. Kundera not only raps the iron knuckles of totalitarianism; he coolly unravels the velvet glove of liberalism...
...Japan, once a nation of imitators, complain that others are up to their old tricks. Example: a Hong Kong firm turns out a timepiece under the Aseikon label, so that all a distributor has to do is strip off the a and the n to get a Seiko. In Milan this summer, police raided a warehouse where counterfeiters made copies of goods sold by Dior, Fendi, Cartier, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Valentino, Omega and Celine, among other firms. The inventory included 10,000 gold-plated watches and lighters, 8,500 handbags, 400 pieces of luggage, wallets and purses, 600 belts...