At the conclusion of this novel, the protagonist realizes that people believe in "eternal memory" and "redressibility," but "everything will be forgotten and nothing will be redressed."
At the conclusion of this novel, the protagonist realizes that people believe in "eternal memory" and "redressibility," but "everything will be forgotten and nothing will be redressed." A jilted woman in this novel tries to kill herself with her assistant's bottle of aspirin, but survives because the bottle actually contains her assistant's laxatives. A Christian girl named Lucie forces off its protagonist's attempts to seduce her and eventually falls in love with her fellow believer Kostka. That protagonist more successfully seduces his friend Pavel's wife Helena, only to find out that Pavel doesn't care, in this novel's seventh section, which depicts (*) Jaroslav's equally ironic failure to revive the Ride of the Kings. The protagonist of this novel embarks on his revenge plot after being kicked out of the Communist Party for sending a postcard with the message "Long live Trotsky!" For 10 points, name this Milan Kundera novel in which Ludvik Jahn gets in trouble for the title attempt at levity.
At the conclusion of this novel, the protagonist realizes that people believe in "eternal memory" and "redressibility," but "everything will be forgotten and nothing will be redressed."
The {Joke} [or {Žert}]