A couple who wrote novels in this language founded the dissident organization 68 Publishers to publish censored works in this language, beginning with the satirical novel The Republic of Whores. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this language used by an author whose collection Laughable Loves was published by 68 Publishers. This is the native language of the author of The Book of Laughter and Forgetting.
ANSWER: Czech [or Čeština]
[10e] In addition to The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, 68 Publishers published the Czech edition of this novel. Tomáš’s mistress Sabina declares war on kitsch in this novel by Milan Kundera.
ANSWER: The Unbearable Lightness of Being [or Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí]
[10h] Josef Škvorecký (“SH’KVOH-rets-kee”), who co-founded 68 Publishers, described this author’s style as “surreal raconteurism.” This author of Too Loud a Solitude wrote about a hotel busboy in I Served the King of England.
ANSWER: Bohumil Hrabal
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