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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 Welty, 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
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...
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...