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 ISBN  9780060995058

The JOKE


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Autor  Milan Kundera
Editorial  HARPER COLLINS
Categoria  Ingles
Condicion  Nuevo

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..