TY - BOOK AU - Kundera,Milan AU - Asher,Aaron TI - The book of laughter and forgetting T2 - Perennial classic SN - 9780060932145 AV - PG 5039.21 .U6 K613 1999 PY - 1999///, ©1996 CY - New York PB - Perennial Classics KW - Czechoslovakia KW - Fiction KW - fast KW - Black humor (Literature) KW - gsafd KW - Allegories N1 - pt. 1. Lost letters -- pt. 2. Mama -- pt. 3. The angels -- pt. 4. Lost letters -- pt. 5. Litost -- pt. 6. The angels -- pt. 7. The border N2 - The absurdities of modern life are dramatized by a student who forsakes physical love for a conversation with poets about it and a former Czech Communist leader who is officially eliminated from history ER -