Also including comments on Beethoven's musical variations, it follows characters like Jan and the waitress Tamina, who yearn for self-discovery, and Marketa and Karel, who have to deal with the amoral Eva.
This novel distinguishes between "false unity" of the police in rows and "true unity" of the youth in circles, and it begins with an analysis of the cap on Klement Gottwald's head. Also including comments on Beethoven's musical variations, it follows characters like Jan and the waitress Tamina, who yearn for self-discovery, and Marketa and Karel, who have to deal with the amoral Eva. One story in it is about Mirek, who wants to retrieve letters from his former mistress Zdena because he is ashamed of her ugliness, and ultimately all seven stories are tied together by descriptions of "a wobbly, breathy sound from the vocal register" and the "struggle of memory," its two title entities. For ten points, name this 1978 novel, the first to bring acclaim to Milan Kundera.
This novel distinguishes between "false unity" of the police in rows and "true unity" of the youth in circles, and it begins with an analysis of the cap on Klement Gottwald's head.
The {Book of Laughter and Forgetting}