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The Hoaxes of the Last Five Years
Late in his life stories emerged that he had actually ratted on people to communist authorities after the communist took over in Czechoslovakia 1948. That kind of cast a Paul and a shadow over his late life efforts but I'm sorry his the joke laughable loves, and the book of laughter and forgetting followed by the unbearable lightness of being which is his most popular book but I don't think his best. And yet it's all about how you are just never safe in an atmosphere of the sort that that that cunder himself was living in in Czechoslov Slovakia. He was just an absolutely extraordinary writerly figure and, as I say I think the joke is the book that would resonate most deeply
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