Laughter and Forgetting

In The Art of the Novel, Kundera outlines three working principles on novel writing: 1) the novel should disavow any political agenda; 2) the novel should reject kitsch; and 3) the novel should counteract kitsch by using a “polyphonic” style, or, a play among different modes of writing such as essay, dream, and fiction. How do you think Kundera has utilized one or all of these principles in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting?

Excerpt from The Unnameable

Brilliant reading of an excerpt from the end of Beckett's trilogy that starts with Molloy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFDI_NGjaLY&feature=related