Směšné lásky vs Válka s mloky: Which Should You Read?

Směšné lásky Milan Kundera · 1965 ★★★★☆ 3.8 257 pages · ≈ 4 h 46 m · Moderate

“"Pour me some more slivovitz," said Klara, and I wasn't against it.”

"In one of these stories a young man and his girlfriend pretend that she is a stranger he picked up on the road - only to become strangers to each other in reality as their game proceeds. In another a teacher fakes…

Válka s mloky Karel Čapek · 1936 ★★★★☆ 4.2 332 pages · ≈ 6 h 09 m · Moderate

Originally written in 1936, two years before Capek's death and three years before the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia, War with the Newts is considered by many to be Capek's greatest book. Working in the "fantastic"…