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The Joke

Author

Milan Kundera

Language

Czech

Year

1967

Country

Czechoslovakia

Genre

Novel

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The Joke is Milan Kundera's first novel, originally published in 1967. It describes how a student's private joke derails his life, and the entwined stories of his lovers and friends grappling with the shifting roles of folk traditions and religion in Communist Czechoslovakia.