Laughable loves / Milan Kundera ; translated from the Czech by Suzanne Rappaport.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kundera, Milan.

Contributor:

Rappaport, Suzanne, translator.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Směšné lásky. English

Language:

Czech

English

Subjects (All):

Manners and customs.

Czech Republic--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Czech Republic.

Genre:

Fiction.

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

287 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Harper Perennial edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Harper Perennial, 1999.

Summary:

"Milan Kundera is a master of graceful illusion and illuminating surprise. In one of these stories a young man and his girlfriend pretend that she is a stranger he picked up on the road--only to become strangers to each other in reality as their game proceeds. In another a teacher fakes piety in order to seduce a devout girl, then jilts her and yearns for God. In yet another girls wait in bars, on beaches, and on station platforms for the same lover, a middle-aged Don Juan who has gone home to his wife. Games, fantasies, and schemes abound in all the stories while different characters react in varying ways to the sudden release of erotic impulses"--Back cover.

Contents:

Nobody will laugh

The golden apple of eternal desire

The hitchhiking game

Symposium

Let the old dead make room for the young dead

Dr. Havel after twenty years

Eduard and God.

Notes:

"This translation was first published in 1974, revised by the author in 1987, and in 1999 once again revised, more extensively, by Aaron Asher in collaboration with the author"--Prelimimary pages.

ISBN:

0060997036

9780060997038

OCLC:

41265975

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