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The Joke
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The Joke Paperback - 1994

by Kundera, Milan

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The authoritative version of the brilliant first novel by the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being. A great novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried, in a completely revised translation that is nothing less than the restoration of a classic.

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HarperCollins Publishers. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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  • Title The Joke
  • Author Kundera, Milan
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, New York
  • Date 1994-01-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 2191840-6
  • ISBN 9780060995058 / 006099505X
  • Weight 0.58 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.01 x 5.32 x 0.84 in (20.35 x 13.51 x 2.13 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Political fiction, Didactic fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 91058349
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

From the publisher

"Definitive version ; fully revised by the author" -- t.p. Translation of: Žert. "Aaron Asher books."

First line

"SO HERE I WAS, home again after all those years."

From the rear cover

All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now, a quarter century after "The Joke" was first published and several years after the collapse of the Soviet-imposed Czechoslovak regime, it becomes easier to put such implications into perspective in favor of valuing the book (and all Kundera 's work) as what it truly is: great, stirring literature that sheds new light on the eternal themes of human existence.

The present edition provides English-language readers an important further means toward revaluation of "The Joke." For reasons he describes in his Author's Note, Milan Kundera devoted much time to creating (with the assistance of his American publisher-editor) a completely revised translation that reflects his original as closely as any translation possibly can: reflects it in its fidelity not only to the words and syntax but also to the characteristic dictions and tonalities of the novel's narrators. The result is nothing less than the restoration of a classic.

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