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Kundera - who has been living in France, “his second homeland,” since 1975 - returns to many of these same themes. In “The Festival of Insignificance,” his flimsy new novella about a group of friends in Paris, Mr. He added, however, that laughter came in different forms: the laughter of genuine joy versus the laughter of “angel-fanatics,” who are so certain of their own worldview that they are “ready to hang anyone not sharing their joy” the laughter that recognizes the Kafkaesque absurdities of life (particularly in an authoritarian regime) versus the sort of nihilistic laughter “which proclaims that everything has become meaningless.” In his groundbreaking novels “ The Book of Laughter and Forgetting” (1980) and “ The Unbearable Lightness of Being” (1984), the Czech-born Milan Kundera wrote about his country under the shadow of the Soviet Union, reinventing the form of the novel while examining the osmosis between the personal and the political there, and the subversive roles that humor and irreverence can play in a totalitarian state.ĭuring that time, he recalled in a 1980 interview, a sense of humor was a sign that a person could be trusted.
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