Sinopse
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.
Capítulos
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Chapter 001
Duração: 27s -
Chapter 002
Duração: 22min -
Chapter 003
Duração: 09min -
Chapter 004
Duração: 08min -
Chapter 005
Duração: 06min -
Chapter 006
Duração: 03min -
Chapter 007
Duração: 10min -
Chapter 008
Duração: 13min -
Chapter 009
Duração: 21min -
Chapter 010
Duração: 11min -
Chapter 011
Duração: 25min -
Chapter 012
Duração: 17min -
Chapter 013
Duração: 13min -
Chapter 014
Duração: 14min -
Chapter 015
Duração: 18min -
Chapter 016
Duração: 11min -
Chapter 017
Duração: 23min -
Chapter 018
Duração: 26min -
Chapter 019
Duração: 13min -
Chapter 020
Duração: 07min