Laughable Loves

Kundera, Milan/ Rappaport, Suzanne (Translator)/ Rappaport, Suzanne

ISBN 10: 0060997036 / ISBN 13: 9780060997038

Verlag: Perennial, 1999

287 pages. 8.25x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0060997036

Inhaltsangabe:

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

The Franco-Czech novelist Milan Kundera (1929–2023) was born in Brno and lived in France, his second homeland, since 1975 until his death. He is the author of the novels The Joke, Life Is Elsewhere, Farewell Waltz, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and the short story collection Laughable Loves—all originally in Czech. His more recent novels, Slowness, Identity, Ignorance, and The Festival of Insignificance, as well as his nonfiction works, The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain, and Encounter, were originally written in French.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Laughable Loves
Verlag: Perennial
Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Brand New