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The Joke
'A very beautiful novel.' (Salman Rushdie)
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The Joke
The Joke, Milan Kundera's first novel, of which Salman Rushdie wrote 'It is impossible to do justice here to the subtleties, comedy and wisdom of this very beautiful novel. The author of The Joke is clearly one of the best to be found anywhere.'
The debut by author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being, of which Salman Rushdie said: 'It is impossible to do justice here to the subtleties, comedy and wisdom of this very beautiful novel.'
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The Joke, Milan Kundera's first novel, gained him a huge following in his own country and launched his worldwide literary reputation. In his foreword, Kundera explains why this completely revised translation is the definitive edition of his work.
'It is impossible to do justice here to the subtleties, comedy, and wisdom of this very beautiful novel. The author of The Joke is clearly one of the best to be found anywhere.' Salman Rushdie, Observer
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The Joke by Milan Kundera has been described as a thoughtful and intricate novel with an ambivalent nature. It is acknowledged for its depth and the ambition of its storytelling, with some suggesting it has the potential for greatness.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780571166930
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 21 August 2000
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Edition: Main - Re-issue
Contributors:
- Translated by Aaron Asher
- Translated by Michael Henry Heim
- Translated by Aaron Asher
- Translated by Michael Henry Heim
- Translated by Aaron Asher
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 126.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 272g
Pages: 336
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About the Author
Milan Kundera, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, was a student when the Czech Communist regime was established in 1948, and later worked as a labourer, jazz musician and professor at the Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studies in Prague. After the Russian invasion in August 1968, his books were proscribed. In 1975, he and his wife settled in France, and in 1981, he became a French citizen. He is the author of the novels The Joke, Life is Elsewhere, Farewell Waltz, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and of the short-story collection Laughable Loves - all originally in Czech. His most recent novels, Slowness, Identity and Ignorance, as well as his non-fiction works The Art of the Novel and Testaments Betrayed, were originally written in French.
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