The Joke.
KUNDERA, Milan.
The Joke.
New York: Coward McCann, 1969.
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First edition, first printing of the author’s first novel. Octavo. Fine in a fine dust jacket with just a touch of shelfwear. Originally published in Czech as “Zert”.
A perennial contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature, Kundera has been nominated on several occasions (Crown, 2005). He is the recipient of several awards, the 2000 Herder Prize and the 2007 Czech State Literature Prize. The Joke is Kundera's first novel, satirical account of the nature of totalitarianism, and "[a] thoughtful, intricate, ambivalent novel with the reach of greatness in it" (John Updike).
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