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The Joke (Czech: Žert) 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 under Communist Czechoslovakia .
Milan Kundera was born on 1 April 1929 at Purkyňova 6 (6 Purkyně Street) in Královo Pole, a district of Brno, Czechoslovakia (present-day Czech Republic), to a middle-class family. His father, Ludvík Kundera (1891–1971), was an important Czech musicologist and pianist who served as the head of the Janáček Music Academy in Brno from 1948 ...
The Joke (Czech: Žert) is a 1969 Czechoslovak film by director Jaromil Jireš.It is considered one of the last films of the Czech New Wave movement. [1]Based on Milan Kundera's 1967 novel of the same name, The Joke tells the story of Ludvík Jahn, a man expelled from the Czechoslovak Communist Party for an idle joke to his girlfriend, and the revenge he later seeks through adultery.
Milan Kundera, the "Unbearable Lightness of Being' author who died Tuesday at 94, didn't just liberate minds from tyranny. He freed the novel too.
Laughable Loves (Czech: Směšné lásky) is a collection of seven short stories by Milan Kundera which mix the extremes of tragedy with comic situations in (mostly romantic) relationships. Stories [ edit ]
Milan Kundera, the renowned but reclusive author whose dissident writings transformed him into an exiled satirist of totalitarianism and explorer of identity and the human condition, has died in ...
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The best corny jokes, knock-knocks, one-liners and dad jokes for kids, adults and everyone else in need of a good laugh. Skip to main content. Subscriptions; Animals. Business. Food. Games. Health ...