书名：The Book of Laughter and Forgetting米兰昆德拉：笑忘录/笑忘书

作者：Milan Kundera 

出版社名称：Faber & Faber 

出版时间：1996 

语种：英语 

ISBN：9780571174379 

商品尺寸：12.6 x 19.8 x 1.9cm 

包装：平装 

页数：320（以实物为准'This book is a novel in the form of variations. The various parts follow each other like the various stages of a voyage leading into the interior of a theme, the interior of a thought, the interior of a single, unique situation the understanding of which recedes from my sight into the distance. It is a book about laughter and about forgetting, about forgetting and about Prague, about Prague and about the angels.'

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the most secret of Kundera's novels. This new translation is the first to be fully authorized by Milan Kundera.

米兰·昆德拉（Milan Kundera），小说家，出生于捷克斯洛伐克布尔诺，自1975年起，在法国定居。长篇小说《玩笑》、《生活在别处》、《告别圆舞曲》、《笑忘录》、《不能承受的生命之轻》和《不朽》，以及短篇小说集《好笑的爱》是以母语捷克文写成。而他新近出版的长篇小说《慢》、《身份》和《无知》及随笔集《小说的艺术》和《被背叛的遗嘱》是以法文写成。《雅克和他的主人》系作者戏剧代表作。

Milan Kundera (born 1 April 1929) is a Czech-born writer who went into exile in France in 1975, and became a naturalised French citizen in 1981. He “sees himself as a French writer and insists his work should be studied as French literature and classified as such in book stores”.

Kundera’s best-known work is The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Prior to the Velvet Revolution of 1989 the Communist régime in Czechoslovakia banned his books. He lives virtually incognito and rarely speaks to the media. A perennial contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature, he is believed to have been nominated on several occasions.