This book review was written by Eugene Kernes
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Collection = The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
Book Club Event = Book List (11/08/2025)
Intriguing Connections = 1) Get To Know The Peoples Of The World (Czechoslovakia),
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Review
Is This An Overview?
Not everyone acts their age, or at least what culture expects from someone of an age. Behavior changes when someone ages, when they are reaching a border. Physical and psychological. Jan is leaving town, and becomes willing to participate in an event that has previously been avoided. The event contains features that are beyond cultural expectations. What does culture expect of people?
Questions to Consider while Reading the Book
•What is the raison d’etre of the book? For what purpose did the author write the book? Why do people read this book?
•What are some limitations of the book?
•To whom would you suggest this book?
•To whom would you suggest the book?
•Is there an appropriate behavior for a specific age?
•Who is Barbara?
•Who are the Clevis’s family?
•Who is Jan?
•How is culture changing?
Book Details
Translator: Aaron Asher
Original Language: French
Translated Into: English
Publisher: Perennial Classics [HarperCollins Publishers]
Edition ISBN: 9780063290693
Pages to read: 30
Publication: 2023
1st Edition: 1978
Format: eBook
Ratings out of 5:
Readability 4
Content 1
Overall 1
