The Joke
- Author: Milan Kundera
- Narrator: Richmond Hoxie
- Publisher: HarperCollins USA
- Duration: 11:44:15
Synopsis
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.
Chapters
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Chapter 001
Duration: 27s -
Chapter 002
Duration: 22min -
Chapter 003
Duration: 09min -
Chapter 004
Duration: 08min -
Chapter 005
Duration: 06min -
Chapter 006
Duration: 03min -
Chapter 007
Duration: 10min -
Chapter 008
Duration: 13min -
Chapter 009
Duration: 21min -
Chapter 010
Duration: 11min -
Chapter 011
Duration: 25min -
Chapter 012
Duration: 17min -
Chapter 013
Duration: 13min -
Chapter 014
Duration: 14min -
Chapter 015
Duration: 18min -
Chapter 016
Duration: 11min -
Chapter 017
Duration: 23min -
Chapter 018
Duration: 26min -
Chapter 019
Duration: 13min -
Chapter 020
Duration: 07min