This book explains an untranslatable word as arising from the "sight of one's own misery" and traces its origin as a national sentiment to a (*) rebellion in 1621.
In a scene from this novel, mourners barely hold back laughter as the hat of a funeral speaker is blown off his head and into a grave. In this novel, the author notes that "graphomania" has become a social problem based on a conversation he had with a "garrulous taxi driver" in Paris, in the context of discussing a woman's visions of six ostriches. Bocaccio contrasts "poets" and "misogynists" at a dinner party of writers in this novel where Goethe convinces a student to make Kristyna his queen. This book explains an untranslatable word as arising from the "sight of one's own misery" and traces its origin as a national sentiment to a (*) rebellion in 1621. Its opening discusses how a man was erased from photos except for those of his fur cap on Klement Gottwald's head. This book, which contains a discussion of litost, introduces the character Tamina in one of two sections titled "Lost Letters." For 10 points, seven sections comprise what Milan Kundera novel about two ways of dealing with life?
In a scene from this novel, mourners barely hold back laughter as the hat of a funeral speaker is blown off his head and into a grave.
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting [or Kniha smichu a zapomneni]