"The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
calls itself a novel, although it is part fairy tale, part literary
criticism, part political tract, part musicology, and part
autobiography. It can call itself whatever it wants to, because the
whole is genius." -- John Leonard, New York Times
"An absolutely dazzling entertainment....Arousing on every levelpolitical, erotic, intellectual, and above all, humorous." -- Newsweek
"Deeply and impressively
subversive, in more ways than one....Kundera's condemnation of modern
life is broad, but his sympathy for those who create and suffer it is
deep." -- Paul Gray, Time
"This book, as it bluntly calls
itself, is brilliant and origin, written with the purity and wit that
invite us directly in. " -- John Updike, New York Times Book Review
