Godina izdanja: 2001
ISBN: 978-0-06-099505-8
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Published by:
HARPER / PERENNIAL
New York, NY

The first novel by author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being, of which Salman Rushdie wrote: `It is impossible to do justice here to the subtleties, comedy and wisdom of this very beautiful novel.`

All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now, more than 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 Milan Kundera `s work) as what it truly is: great, stirring literature that sheds new light on the eternal themes of human existence.

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Prvi roman autora modernog klasika Nepodnošljiva lakoća bića, za koji je Salman Ruždi napisao: „Ovde je nemoguće odati priznanje suptilnostima, komediji i mudrosti ovog veoma lepog romana.“

Prečesto je ovaj briljantan roman o osujećenoj ljubavi i pobačaju osvete čitan zbog političkih implikacija. Sada, više od četvrt veka nakon što je Šala prvi put objavljena i nekoliko godina nakon kolapsa čehoslovačkog režima nametnutog Sovjetskim Savezom, postaje lakše staviti takve implikacije u perspektivu u korist vrednovanja knjige (i celog dela Milana Kundere ) kao ono što zaista jeste: velika, uzbudljiva književnost koja baca novo svetlo na večne teme ljudskog postojanja.