Kundera, Milan;
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1981)
ICI Shelf: Paris
First Line: “In February 1948, Communist leader Klement Gottwald stepped out on the balcony of a Baroque palace in Prague to address the hundreds of thousands of his fellow citizens packed into Old Town Square.”
Last Line: “The others listened with interest, their naked genitals staring dully, sadly, listlessly at the yellow sand.”
ICI History: Last Line, Today at the ICI — Twitter Feed (07-10-16)
Accession #: ICI-02616