kundera milan the book of laughter and forgetting
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‘This book is a novel in the form of variations. The various parts follow each other like the various stages of a voyage leading into the interior of a theme, the interior of a thought, the interior of a single, unique situation the understanding of which recedes from my sight into the distance. It is a book about laughter and about forgetting, about forgetting and about Prague, about Prague and about the angels.’ The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the most secret of Kundera’s novels. This new translation is the first to be fully authorized by Milan Kundera.
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Самые красивые и самые дорогие, самые популярные и самые любимые, самые редкие и самые новаторские, навсегда изменившие облик своих стран и всего мира, оставившие след в искусстве и сами ставшие произведениями искусства... Книга рассказывает о 100 легендарных легковых автомобилях мира.
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Самые красивые и самые дорогие, самые популярные и самые любимые, самые редкие и самые новаторские, навсегда изменившие облик своих стран и всего мира, оставившие след в искусстве и сами ставшие произведениями искусства... Книга рассказывает о 100 легендарных легковых автомобилях мира.
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A budding poet and his adoring mother are the central characters of this intriguing early novel by Milan Kundera. He takes us through the young man’s fantasies and love affairs in a characteristic tour de force, alive with wit, eroticism and ideas.
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In Ignorance, set in contemporary Prague, one of the most distinguished writers of our time takes up the complex and emotionally charged theme of exile and creates from it a literary masterpiece. A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned twenty years earlier when they chose to become exiles. Will they manage to pick up the thread of their strange love story, interrupted almost as soon as it began and then lost in the tides of history? The truth is that after such a long absence ‘their memories no longer match.’ We always believe that our memories coincide with those of the person we loved, that we experienced the same thing. But this is just an illusion as the memory records only ‘an insignificant, minuscule particle’ of the past, ‘and no one knows why it’s this bit and not any other bit.’ We live our lives sunk in a vast forgetting, and we refuse to see it. Only those who return after twenty years, like Ulysses returning to his native Ithaca, can be dazzled and astounded by observing the goddess of ignorance first-hand. Milan Kundera has taken these dizzying concepts of absence, memory, forgetting, and ignorance, and transformed them into material for a novel, masterfully orchestrating them into a polyphonic and moving work.
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'Our very best writer today' Milan Kundera Sparkling with comic genius and narrative exuberance, I Served the King of England is a story of how the unbelievable came true. Its remarkable hero, Ditie, is a hotel waiter who rises to become a millionaire and then loses it all again against the backdrop of events in Prague from the German invasion to the victory of Communism. Ditie's fantastic journey intertwines the political and the per
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This ribald, high-spirited novel, whose author was described by Diderot as 'the Rabelais of the English', provoked literary scandal when it was first published in 1760. With its ingenious structure and its exuberant pretence of being an autobiography, Tristram Shandy fascinates like a verbal game of chess. Milan Kundera has said that it is the eighteenth-century novel he loves best.
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Philip Roth's writing career spans a remarkable five decades, a period that has seen him rise to become one of the greatest chroniclers of post-war American life. Collected here are some of the finest interviews, essays and articles discussing his own fiction and the range of controversies that it sparked, including his long interview with the Paris Review. Here too are Roth's writings on American fiction, Milan Kundera, baseball, and his deep admiration for Franz Kafka. Coursing through each of these pieces is the Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness that have defined Roth's writing for half a century.
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Casting light on the most serious of problems and at the same time saying not one serious sentence; being fascinated by the reality of the contemporary world and at the same time completely avoiding realism-that's The Festival of Insignificance. Readers who know Kundera's earlier books know that the wish to incorporate an element of the "unserious" in a novel is not at all unexpected of him. In Immortality, Goethe and Hemingway stroll through several chapters together talking and laughing. And in Slowness, Vera, the author's wife, says to her husband: "you've often told me you meant to write a book one day that would have not a single serious word in it... I warn you: watch out. Your enemies are lying in wait." Now, far from watching out, Kundera is finally and fully realizing his old aesthetic dream in this novel that we could easily view as a summation of his whole work. A strange sort of summation. Strange sort of epilogue. Strange sort of laughter, inspired by our time, which is comical because it has lost all sense of humor. What more can we say? Nothing. Just read.
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In this magical sticker book, you can complete pictures of some of the world's most awe-inspiring mythical beasts - from a howling werewolf and monstrous yeti, to a fiery Leviathan and majestic Chinese dragon. Not forgetting the terrifying Medusa, of course... Find the right stickers to complete your beasts, then read their descriptions, compare their statistics, and use them to create some stories of your own.
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RUR 344
Drop this amusing waterproof book in the water with baby's bath for a festival of noisy, splashing fun! Bright, humorous animal pictures appear on every floatable vinyl page, and a rattle embedded inside the book makes an amusing jingle that will evoke baby's laughter. Baby can see pictures of a crab, a starfish, a school of fish, an octopus, and a seahorse.
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It’s a national icon, a British institution, the finest grocer of them all. Fortnum & Mason is a store that has fuelled the tide of British history, fed the appetites of kings and queens, maharajahs and czars, emperors, dukes and divas alike. Fortnum & Mason is a constantly evolving, hugely successful modern enterprise, one that respects its magnificent history while looking forward into the 21st century. The first Fortnum & Mason’s cook book does the same, appealing to the modern reader and cook, whilst never forgetting the past. A contemporary, accessible recipe book that combines superb recipes and expert advice on ingredients, The Cook Book: Fortnum & Mason shines a light on the history of the best British cuisine, with delicious, contemporary Modern British dishes.
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A profoundly unsettling story of a plantation slave's desperate escape into a rainforest beyond human control, with his master and a ferocious dog on his heels. This flight to freedom takes them on a journey that will transform them all, as the overwhelming physical presence of the forest and its dense primeval wilderness reshapes reality and time itself. In the darkness, the old man grapples with the spirits of all those who have gone before him; the knowledge that the past is always with us, and the injustice that can cry out from beyond the grave. From a Prix Goncourt writer hailed by Milan Kundera as the "heir of Joyce and Kafka," The Old Slave and the Mastiff fearlessly portrays the demonic cruelties of the slave trade and its human costs - a wise, loving tribute to the Creole culture of Martinique, and a vividly told journey into the heart of Caribbean history and human endurance.
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A brilliantly funny, rhyming read-aloud picture book - jam-packed with animals and silliness! From the bestselling, multi-award-winning creators of Oi Frog! A brilliantly funny, rhyming read-aloud picture book - jam-packed with animals and silliness! From the bestselling, multi-award-winning creators of Oi Frog! Oi! Where are duck-billed platypuses meant to sit? And Kookaburras and hippopotamuses and all the other animals with impossible to rhyme with names... Over to you Frog! The laughter never ends with Oi Frog and Friends.
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GIGGLE YOUR WAY TO GOOD HEALTH! Introducing Laughter Yoga - a revolutionary technique to help you experience all the physical and emotional benefits of laughter by the founder of the worldwide laughter yoga movement. Scientific studies have shown that prolonged voluntary laughter offers the same health benefits as spontaneous laughter. If you learn to laugh as an exercise, you'll become happy and healthy. A combination of yogic breathing and laughter exercises make this a full mind-body workout that will help reduce stress, strengthen your immune system and keep your mind positive during challenging times.
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GIGGLE YOUR WAY TO GOOD HEALTH! Introducing Laughter Yoga - a revolutionary technique to help you experience all the physical and emotional benefits of laughter by the founder of the worldwide laughter yoga movement. Scientific studies have shown that prolonged voluntary laughter offers the same health benefits as spontaneous laughter. If you learn to laugh as an exercise, you'll become happy and healthy. A combination of yogic breathing and laughter exercises make this a full mind-body workout that will help reduce stress, strengthen your immune system and keep your mind positive during challenging times.