Hikmet Erhan Bener (Books)

Hikmet Erhan Bener Books

Erhan Bener began his literary career in 1945 with poems and short stories published in various magazines. He went on to author over thirty books, with his works often translated into foreign languages and some adapted for cinema and television. His writing delves into the complexities of human nature and societal dynamics, characterized by a distinctive narrative voice. Bener's exploration of themes through novels, plays, and stories cemented his significant contribution to literature.

The book of laughter and forgetting

312 pages
11 hours of reading

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'This book is a novel in the form of variations. The various parts follow each other like the various stages of a voyage leading into the interior of a theme, the interior of a thought, the interior of a single, unique situation the understanding of which recedes from my sight into the distance. It is a book about laughter and about forgetting, about forgetting and about Prague, about Prague and about the angels.' The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the most secret of Kundera's novels. This new translation is the first to be fully authorized by Milan Kundera. 'An urgent, stunning book; it teaches us that when we die, what we lose is not the future but the past. I think of Kundera as the great modern descendant of Gogol and Kafka.' Carlos Fuentes