Laughable Loves

By Milan Kundera,

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A dazzling collection of stories - originally banned in 1968 Prague - by the author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

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…

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1 author picked Laughable Loves as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Milan Kundera is a master of human psychology. In these seven stories, which portray the paranoia of ordinary life in Czechoslovakia under communism, Kundera lays bare the tragic comedy of human vanity and insecurity and how they prove to be our undoing. 

I personally will never forget the perceptive “Nobody Will Laugh” or his brilliant story “The Hitchhiking Game,” which illustrates more about what it means to be human than almost anything else in print.

These are what every short story writer dreams of when s/he puts pen to paper.

From Norrin's list on short stories for a cottage trip.

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