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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.… (meer)
Kundera is a master whose work I am not competent to evaluate or critique, but I know I liked this book a lot. It was, to me, a powerful reflection on how a small incident - in this case a joke - can change what otherwise would have been someone's life. A mere aside or misstep, or an error of judgment, can distort a day, a relationship or the stream of a career; and that aside, misstep or error of judgment cannot be recalled. (And so, for example, someone might decide not to go to UCal at Santa Barbara but to the University of Illinois because of apprehension about the cost of living in California being forbiddingly high, and spend 2 years in ice cold, bare prairie, rather than on a sunny beach.) In this book, though, the consequence of one error of judgment resulted in a drastic change and diminution of a young man's life in the '50's in Communist Czechoslovakia. ( )
Ludvik Jahn, joven estudiante universitario y activo miembro del Partido Comunista checo, envía a una compañera de clase una postal en la que se burla del optimismo ideológico imperante. La broma no les hace la menor gracia a los dirigentes universitarios y, tras un juicio sumario, expulsan a Ludvik de la universidad y del Partido. Pero, paradójicamente, al caer en desgracia, se abre para Ludvik un mundo aún desconocido. Atrapado entre dos amores, el de Lucie, tierno y desesperado, y el de Helena, apasionado y cínico, Ludvik va, sin embargo, de tropiezo en tropiezo, transformando su vida en un cúmulo de situaciones a cuál más grotesca y risible. De hecho, con el paso del tiempo, la vida de Ludvik se convertirá en una enorme broma pesada: ya no podrá culpar al destino, porque ya no puede sino culparse a sí mismo.
Ludvik Jahn, joven estudiante universitario y activo miembro del Partido Comunista checo, envía a una compañera de clase una postal en la que se burla del optimismo ideológico imperante. La broma no les hace la menor gracia a los dirigentes universitarios y, tras un juicio sumario, expulsan a Ludvik de la universidad y del Partido. Pero, paradójicamente, al caer en desgracia, se abre para Ludvik un mundo aún desconocido. Atrapado entre dos amores, el de Lucie, tierno y desesperado, y el de Helena, apasionado y cínico, Ludvik va, sin embargo, de tropiezo en tropiezo, transformando su vida en un cúmulo de situaciones a cual más grotesca y risible. De hecho, con el paso del tiempo, la vida de Ludvik se convertirá en una enorme broma pesada: ya no podrá culpar al destino, porque ya no puede sino culparse a sí mismo
Zo stonden we een minuut of tien om hem heen, toen kwam de tweede violist terug en gaf ons een sein; we hielpen Jaroslav overeind, ondersteunden hem bij het lopen en leidden hem langzaam door het rauwe kabaal van de dronken jongelui de straat op, waar de witte ambulance met alle lichten aan wachtte.
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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In this book, though, the consequence of one error of judgment resulted in a drastic change and diminution of a young man's life in the '50's in Communist Czechoslovakia. (