Laughable Loves

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.

Product details

• Authors: Milan Kundera
• Assisted by: Suzanne Rappaport (Translation)
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.08.1999
• EAN: 9780060997038
• ISBN: 978-0-06-099703-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Tschechische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), Romance, Eastern Europe, France, Germany, Narrative theme: Interior life, Anthologies: general, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: General, FICTION: Romance / Collections & Anthologies, PHILOSOPHY: LITERATURE, FICTION: Anthologies (multiple authors), LITERARY COLLECTIONS: European / German, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: European / French, Modern and Contemporary romance, Classic fiction: general and literary, Philosophy / Literature