Milan Kundera Book Club Discusses The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
THURSDAY, September 19 | 7-8:30 PM
CZECH CENTER MUSEUM HOUSTON, 4920 SAN JACINTO ST.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Please join us for the last in a series of events exploring the work of Milan Kundera (1929-2023), the Czech writer whose books became an international phenomenon. During the Soviet domination of Czechoslovakia, Kundera reminded the world of his native country’s central place in European culture. His formative influences included the composer Leoš Janáček and that modern myth-maker, Franz Kafka. Kundera was also drawn to the imagination of France, where he settled in 1975. The cultural form that preoccupied Kundera was the novel. He leaned into its skepticism and comedy to contemplate societies distorted by ideology and vacuousness.
Robert Cremins and Dan Price from the Honors College at the University of Houston will lead us in a discussion of The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, which back in late 1980 The New York Times called “the most original book of the season.”
Visit Brazos Bookstore or the CCMH to order your copy of Kundera’s novels.
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TIME AND LOCATION
Tuesday, September 19, 2024, at 7:00 PM
Czech Center Museum Houston
4920 San Jacinto St.
Houston, Texas, 77004
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Robert Cremins is a Senior Lecturer in the Honors College at the University of Houston, where he also directs Creative Work: A Pre-Professional Program. He is the author of the novels A Sort of Homecoming and Send in the Devils. His short fiction has appeared in Critical Quarterly, The Dublin Review, and been broadcast on BBC Radio.
Dan Price has taught at the University of Houston's Honors College since 2000. He has a PhD in Philosophy, specializing in French and German Aesthetics and Ethics. After several books on the intersection of ethics, community, and art, he has spent the last decade working toward practical applications of philosophy. He directs both the Community Health Worker Initiative and the Data & Society Program at the Honors College. They collect and analyze data from front-line health workers in disadvantaged communities around the Houston area, creating innovative programs for undergraduates to work side by side with community members to address a wide range of health problems.