It's a collection of love stories except none of them have anything to do with love. Laughter and Forgetting will always be my favorite Kundera book but Laughable Loves come in close second. It's a book that uses the idea of love to mock, well, the idea of love. Or rather our (mis)interpretation of it. As the different short stories suggest, we seem to have a habit of calling every intense emotion we feel love. We mistake infatuation as love. We misconstrue lust for love. We even think anger, guilt and insecurity to be love sometimes! And we pursue this perceived love with such passion (to the point of insanity even) either because we are so certain it's real or because we desperately want it to be . Either way, it's quite funny.
Read the stories; some are simple, others are crazy but they're all laughable!
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