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The Joke
The Joke is Milan Kundera's first novel, originally published in 1967.
It is told from the viewpoint of four different narrators (the only of Kundera's novels that does not feature the author himself as narrator); as the novel nears its climax, the point of view shifts at a repeating rate. The novel partly criticizes Communist Czechoslovakia, though Kundera's response to such a reading was, "Spare me your Stalinism. The Joke is a love story." (Preface to The Joke.) A major theme of the novel is History as an overwhelming force that plays jokes on each and all of us.
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