The Joke by Milan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim (Translator)

The Joke by Milan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim (Translator)All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now though, 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

How bad could it really be

looking back and looking inwards—by taking a fresh

The Gita teaches that if a man performs his duties

paid leave and work flexibility

yet somehow

Following Korim with obsessive realism through the streets of New York (from his landing in a Bowery flophouse to his move far uptown with a mad interpreter)

they stand as an intense personal narrative of artistic development and a unique account of the process of creation

received extraordinary praise

a transcendentalist

His startling prophecies

and her kids Jojo and Kayla

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