Milan Kundera · 1999
A novel exploring themes of memory, history, and political oppression through a series of interconnected stories in Czechoslovakia.
Stephen Kotkin values the book for its role in his language training and his discovery of the region's culture.
A speaker recommends a book written by someone else.
“Just like I read Kundera's Book of Laughter and Forgetting after I learned Czech. It was part of my Czech language training at Berkeley.”
Why: It served as a valuable part of his language training and discovery of the region's culture.
Stephen Kotkin, Guest on Conversations with TylerStephen Kotkin on Stalin, Power, and the Art of Biography
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