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KUNDERA'S 'OPUS ONE'

Smĕšné lásky. Tři melancholické anekdoty.

Prague, Československý spisovatel, 1963.

Three vols, 8vo, pp. 97, [3]; 78, [5]; 155, [5]; very good copies in the original cloth, with original illustrated dustjackets by Zdenek Seydl.

£500

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US $623  €583

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First edition of all three volumes of the trilogy which makes up Kundera’s early collection of short stories, Laughable Loves. ‘My writing took flight with the first story for Laughable Loves. This was my Opus 1. Everything I'd written prior to it can be considered prehistory’ (Kundera).

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