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Told through four alternating points-of-view, Kundera’s 1967 debut follows the repercussions of a joke told by an undergraduate student in soviet-occupied Czechoslovakian. Kundera draws on three traditions: the senseless labyrinth of fellow Czech writer Franz Kafka, the satirical works produced by citizens of and refugees from the Soviet Union, and the revenge tragedy in which the hero is hoisted by his own petard.

The Joke follows Ludvik’s life after he is expelled from both the university and the party for his quip, sending him into a life of bitter resentment toward peers too cowardly to defend his character. The book presents an all-too-recognizable portrait of a society rife with ideological conformity, institutional overreach, personal cowardice, and humorlessness, in which people face outsize consequences for minor transgressions as their peers watch in silence

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