The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

Milan Kundera

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

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Topic

Fighting injustice Oppression Memory History

Speaker

Mirek

Author

Milan Kundera

Source

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

Czech

Time

1979 1970s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

Czech Republic Europe

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Kundera, Milan. Le Livre du rire et de l'oubli [The Book of Laughter and Forgetting]. Gallimard, 1979.

Current Citation

Kundera, Milan. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, translated by Aaron Asher. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999.

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