"An intellectual heavyweight and a pure literary virtuoso, Milan Kundera takes some of Freud's most cherished complexes and irreverently whirls them about in acts of legerdemain that capture our darkest, deepest human passions. . . . The tales in Laughable Loves surprise and illuminate. . . . Kundera's world is complex, full of mockeries and paradoxes. Life is often brutal and humiliating; it is often blasphemous, funny, irritating." – Abe Ravitz, Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Buoyantly energetic and virtuosic." – Walter Clemons, Newsweek
"Light, wry, and wise." – John Skow, Time
"Milan Kundera offers a very special blend of sympathy and cynicism, irony and affability, that is unmatched in our literature." – Thomas Joyce, Chicago Sun-Times