psyche’s Reviews > The Book of Laughter and Forgetting > Status Update

“He was in love with his destiny, and even his march toward ruin seemed noble and beautiful to him”

“They wanted to efface hundreds of thousands of lives from memory and leave nothing but an unstained age of unstained idyll. But Mirek is going to land his whole body on that idyll, like a stain. He'll stay there just as Clementis's hat stayed on Gottwald's head.”