The Book of Laughter and Forgetting | Characters
The characters in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting illustrate the tendency — more pronounced in such earlier novels as The Farewell Party (1976) — for Kundera's characters to be one-dimensional. They tend to be thesis characters who play their part in demonstrating the author's themes. Even so, they exist against social and domestic backgrounds that create depth and help make them believable. They can be funny or affecting or both at the same time, since Kundera typically writes about them with a kind of mordant humor.
A prominent character type is the victim...
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