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Original Title:	Směšné lásky
ISBN:	0571206921 (ISBN13: 9780571206926)
Edition Language:	English

Laughable Loves

Milan Kundera

Paperback | Pages: 287 pages

Rating: 3.87 | 22535 Users | 1133 Reviews

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Title	:	Laughable Loves
Author	:	Milan Kundera
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 287 pages
Published	:	August 21st 2000 by Faber & Faber (first published 1970)
Categories	:	Fiction. Short Stories. European Literature. Czech Literature. Literature

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Laughable Loves is a collection of stories that first appeared in print in Prague before 1968, but was then was subsequently banned. The seven stories are all concerned with love, or rather with the complex erotic games and stratagems employed by women and especially men as they try to come to terms with needs and impulses that can start a terrifying train of events. Sexual attraction is shown as a game that often turns sour, an experience that brings with it painful insights and releases uncertainty, panic, vanity and a constant need for reassurance. Thus a young couple on holiday start a game of pretence that threatens to destroy their relationship, two middle-aged men go in search of girls they don't really want, a young man renews contact with an older woman who feels humiliated by her ageing body, an elderly doctor uses his beautiful wife to increase his attraction and minister to his sexual vanity. In Laughable Loves, Milan Kundera shows himself, once again, as a master of fiction's most graceful illusions and surprises.

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Ratings: 3.87 From 22535 Users | 1133 Reviews

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that last story did it for me. what a collection. nothing less than 5 stars definitely. if it were possible, definitely more. kundera you are brilliant. my eyebrows were constantly raising while I broke out into smiles involuntarily while reading this.

well, though i'm currently not quite winning at the game of love, it's some consolation to know that the rest of the human race is losing right along with me. and isn't that just hilarious??

Little white lies turn into existential crises, and hefty debates arise between knowledge and truth: It's Kundera. As one of his earlier works, Laughable Loves is more simple and honest than others that I've read, and therefore extremely subtle its nuances. It's not as beautiful as his later writing, but there's beauty in that.Kundera is a master at pointing out the flaws in intimate relationships that nobody ever cares to mention: the love of impossible imperfections, the desire to cheat (and

Laughable Loves is one of Kundera's earlier works, published in 1969, and like many of Kundera's novels (this one is a collection of seven short stories), love, relationships and sex are masterfully dissected. Sexual attraction is a major theme in this collection - we see men and women weave their way through complex erotic games, reaching out for success; for maturity; for a rekindling of youth; for social status; for love...I found the first story weak but the quality picked up thereafter. I

how can somebody be so clever to create stories from things we don't think would deserve to be a story!

We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can we glance at the past and find out what we have experienced and what meaning it has.

My cover has a naked blue chick on the front.So, I actually finished this book about two days ago. I never came to write a review. There's no good reason for my delay. I had time to sit and reflect; I had time to sit and write, but I sort of just shut down about the whole thing.Kundera managed to leave me a little cold here. Maybe it's the weather, all the snow and wind and stuff, all of which I normally love. Our dog likes to roll around on her back in the snow. I like that too. This stuff is