Laughable Loves - Couverture souple

Milan-kundera

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140040447 ISBN 13 : 9780140040449

Editeur : Penguin, 1981

Synopsis

This collection contains stories about the sport of love - Don Juanism, ageing, male and female power and seductions undertaken for all kinds of intriguing motives. Milan Kundera is author of Unbearable Lightness of Being and the Book of Laughter and Forgetting.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Biographie de l'auteur

Milan Kundera is the author of the novels The Joke, Farewell Waltz, Life Is Elsewhere, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and the short-story collection Laughable Loves—all originally written in Czech. His most recent novels Slowness, Identity, and Ignorance, as well as his nonfiction works The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain, and Encounter, were originally written in French.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 1981
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140040447
• ISBN 13: 9780140040449
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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