The Joke

The Joke is Milan Kundera's first novel, originally published in 1967.

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It is told from the viewpoint of four different narrators (the only of Kundera's novels that does not feature the author himself as narrator); as the novel nears its climax, the point of view shifts at a repeating rate. The novel partly criticizes Communist Czechoslovakia, though Kundera's response to such a reading was, "Spare me your Stalinism. The Joke is a love story." (Preface to The Joke.) A major theme of the novel is History as an overwhelming force that plays jokes on each and all of us.

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In 1968, The Joke was adapted into a film by Czech New Wave director Jarom?r Jire?, but the film was almost immediately banned following the Soviet clampdown on the Prague Spring.

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Milan Kundera: Milan Kundera (born April 1 1929 in Brno, Czechoslovakia) is a Franco-Czech writer. He has lived in France since 1975, and has been a French citizen since 1981....

1967: 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar....

Narrator: The Narrator is the entity within a story that tells the story to the reader. It is one of three entities responsible for story-telling of any kind. The others are the Author and the Reader (or Audience). The Author and the Reader both inhabit the real world. It is the Author's function to creat...

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