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Laughable Loves (in English)
Milan Kundera
Synopsis "Laughable Loves (in English)"
Laughable Loves is a collection of stories that first appeared in print in Prague before 1968 but was then 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.Laughable Loves is a collection of stories that first appeared in print in Prague before 1968 but was then 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.
Milan Kundera (/'mɪlan 'kundɛra/ Brno, 1 de abril de 1929-París, 11 de julio de 2023) fue un novelista, escritor de cuentos cortos, dramaturgo, ensayista y poeta checo. Desde 1975 residió con su esposa en Francia, cuya ciudadanía adquirió en 1987.
La obra más conocida de Kundera es La insoportable levedad del ser. Antes de la Revolución de Terciopelo de 1989, el régimen comunista de Checoslovaquia prohibió sus libros. Llevó una vida de bajo perfil y rara vez hablaba con los medios. Se pensaba que era un candidato para el Premio Nobel de Literatura y también fue nominado para otros premios.
Recibió el Premio Jerusalén de 1985, el Premio Austriaco de Literatura Europea en 1987 y el Premio Herder de 2000. En 2021, recibió la Orden al Mérito de manos del presidente de Eslovenia.
