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(7) Snow Line
Kundera's writing style isn't particularly hard to handle: he's straightforward in his descriptions and dialogue, and the storytelling is pretty compelling. The difficulty comes when you try to figure out the structure of the work and how it's actually a novel and not—well, something else. Kundera explains—right in the middle of the work—how The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is a series of "variations on a theme." But what exactly are the themes? And how do the parts of the work hang together? You'll probably want to check out the rest of our pages for some assistance.