NMLP P-021954 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Milan Kundera · Alfred A. Knopf (New York) · 1980

The Knopf 1980 Heim translation is the first English edition; the French Gallimard 1979 edition preceded any complete Czech publication. This is the original 1980 Heim text, later retranslated by Aaron Asher in 1996 (a separate 'first thus').

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-021954 for "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" by Milan Kundera (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-021954, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).