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The Joke by Milan Kundera 1st Printing of Definitive Edition Hardcover
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2003
- Item Height
- 1.8in
- Item Length
- 6.2in
- Item Width
- 9.2in
- ISBN
- 9780060190309
- Publication Year
- 1992
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Joke
- Features
- Revised
- Original Language
- Cze,Eng
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Literary
- Item Weight
- 23.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0060190302
ISBN-13
9780060190309
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1958893
Product Key Features
Original Language
Cze,Eng
Book Title
Joke
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1992
Topic
Literary
Features
Revised
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
23.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
91-058349
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
891.8/6/35
Edition Description
Revised edition
Synopsis
The first definitive edition of the brilliant first novel from the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Originally published in 1967, but banned after the Soviet takeover of Czechoslovakia, The Joke is a classic story of love, politics, and revenge., 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.
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