A dazzling collection of stories - originally banned in 1968 Prague - by a 'magnificent short-story writer' (NYT) and author of classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being. 'Kundera is a self-confessed hedonist in a world beset by politics . . . Marvellous.' Salman Rushdie 'Kundera's achievement has been to bring both private life and political life into one comic framework.' Ian McEwan On holiday, a man and his girlfriend pretend she is a hitchhiking stranger - but their game soon makes them strangers to each other. One ...
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A dazzling collection of stories - originally banned in 1968 Prague - by a 'magnificent short-story writer' (NYT) and author of classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being. 'Kundera is a self-confessed hedonist in a world beset by politics . . . Marvellous.' Salman Rushdie 'Kundera's achievement has been to bring both private life and political life into one comic framework.' Ian McEwan On holiday, a man and his girlfriend pretend she is a hitchhiking stranger - but their game soon makes them strangers to each other. One young man reconnects with his grieving former lover, only to be shocked by her ageing body. Two friends embark on an obsessive mission to seduce as many women as possible in the Eternal Chase. A teacher fakes piety to seduce a devoutly religious girl: then jilts her and yearns for God. In these celebrated stories, Kundera probes our darkest erotic impulses and most destructive sexual fantasies - while seducing us with his graceful, whimsical prose.
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Add this copy of Laughable Loves to cart. $12.99, good condition, Sold by HPB Inc. rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1974 by Knopf; [distributed by Random Ho.
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Add this copy of Laughable loves. to cart. $20.00, very good condition, Sold by Bedrock Books & Art rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Helena, MT, UNITED STATES, published 1974 by Knopf; [distributed by Random House].
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Text in English, Czech. xvi, 242 p. 22 cm. Translation of Smesné lásky. Contents: Roth, P. Introduction. --The hitchhiking game. --Let the old dead make room for the young dead. --Nobody will laugh. --The golden apple of eternal desire. --Symposium. --Dr. Havel after ten years. --Edward and God.
Add this copy of Laughable Loves to cart. $34.95, very good condition, Sold by Silent Way Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Glenside, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1974 by Knopf.
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Very Good in Near Very Good jacket. Book and dust jacket in solid overall condition. Binding tight and straight. Small name/date on FFEP, else unmarked. Jacket features a 3/4" closed tear at top right corner of front panel, faint toning/soiling along edges of rear panel; has been placed in new mylar sleeve.
Add this copy of Laughable Loves to cart. $36.00, very good condition, Sold by Voyageur Book Shop rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Milwaukee, WI, UNITED STATES, published 1974 by Alfred A. Knopf.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall Stated First Edition. Chipping to the edge of the dust jacket. The pages are clean and unmarked. A.
Add this copy of Laughable loves. to cart. $39.95, very good condition, Sold by David Segal rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Brooklyn, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1974 by Knopf; [distributed by Random House].
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Very good. No dust jacket. Text in English, Czech. xvi, 242 p. 22 cm. Stated 1st American edition. No dj (although B&W author photo is laid in) spine tilted, soil/sunning on cover, top back corner bumped, smudge on ffep, else text clean, binding tight. Translation of Smesné lásky. Contents: Roth, P. Introduction. --The hitchhiking game. --Let the old dead make room for the young dead. --Nobody will laugh. --The golden apple of eternal desire. --Symposium. --Dr. Havel after ten years. --Edward and God.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. First American edition. Translated from the Czech by Suzanne Rappaport. Introduction by Philip Roth. xvi, 242pp. Owner name on the front fly, corners and spine ends lightly bumped and rubbed, near fine in a price-clipped, very good dust jacket, lightly toned, a bit of rubbing, and moderate bumping along the edges.
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It being Kundera, it is worth a read, so I recommend it albeit somewhat guardedly. This series of shorts ranges from nearly sublime to nearly petty. That's the bad news. The good news is that, although the author seems interested in writing about relationships and the varieties of interconnectedness between lovers, what he really writes about is life under communism and people's attempts to eradicate themselves from the oppressive dullness and lack of sensual pleasure under that rule. Perhaps as a political book (and now merely an historical document), it is more profound for discussing this problem indirectly. (As a meditation on love, it is not especially valuable.)
