Milan Kundera and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

In this week's episode, we discuss the life and work of late-great novelist, Milan Kundera, with special emphasis on his 1979 novel, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. Included in this analysis is reflection on the ideas of Harold Bloom, Niall Ferguson, Jay Parini and others, while contextualizing Kundera's writing in the stark and often brutal milieu of Soviet impingement.
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