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This author recalled originally titling a novel “The Planet of Inexperience” in a section on “inexperience” in the essay “Sixty-Three Words.” It’s not Henry James, but this author remarked on a tendency to write seven-section (20[1])novels in the 1986 essay collection (20[2])The Art of the Novel; (20[2])such novels (20[1])include one (20[1])with the repeated (0[1])section titles (0[1])“Lost (20[1])Letters” and “The Angels.” A novel by this (20[1])author opens by discussing the French Revolution’s possible (*) eternal return. In that novel, a “war (0[1])on kitsch” (10[1])is declared (10[3])by a (10[1])painter (10[3])who (10[1])sometimes wears a bowler hat, Sabina. (10[1])This author also wrote (10[1])about Tomáš (10[1])(“TOE-mash”) and Tereza’s experience (10[1])of the Prague Spring. For 10 points, name (10[1])this author of The Book of Laughter and Forgetting and The Unbearable Lightness (10[1])of Being. (10[1])■END■ (10[3]0[1])

ANSWER: Milan Kundera (“koon-DAIR-ah”)
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