Laughable Loves

by Kundera, Milan (Author); Rappaport, Suzanne (Translator); Roth, Philip (Introduction by)

• ISBN13: 9780140040449
• ISBN10: 0140040447
• Format: Paperback
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

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.

Author Biography

The Franco-Czech novelist Milan Kundera was born in Brno and has lived in France, his second homeland, for more than twenty years.

Table of Contents

Nobody Will Laugh	p. 1
The Golden Apple of Eternal Desire	p. 47
The Hitchhiking Game	p. 77
Symposium	p. 107
Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead	p. 163
Dr. Havel After Twenty Years	p. 195
Eduard and God	p. 241
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