Re:The Two Milan Kunderas
by cafard on Sunday December 10, 2023 @06:50PM
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"but also in his determined ‘erasures’ of past writing, be it private letters, early poetry or inconvenient passages in reissued essays and novels."
It occurs to me that there are a couple of stories in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting that turn on this. The better match is a story about a man wishing to retrieve letters from a mistress he has broken with and would prefer to regret. One might also count the story about the woman who wishes to retrieve letters exchanged with her husband--only the letters are in Czechoslovakia and she is in France.
It occurs to me that there are a couple of stories in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting that turn on this. The better match is a story about a man wishing to retrieve letters from a mistress he has broken with and would prefer to regret. One might also count the story about the woman who wishes to retrieve letters exchanged with her husband--only the letters are in Czechoslovakia and she is in France.