In the canon
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1979
- Originally in
- Originally in Czech
- Pages
- Pages 280
In seven variations set around occupied Prague, lovers, exiles and party men fight the state's rewriting of the past, and laughter and forgetting keep changing sides.
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
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