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 w...
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.
A very HEAVY book. It lacks the sense of detachment which i usually look for in stories. Love the folk song theme, from where the deprived souls are lost and saved.
I dare say I have been deeply influenced by the utter absurdity and bitter mockery in this book, as I am now such a skeptic, sensitive to all the ridiculousness in our daily life that echoed what they...I dare say I have been deeply influenced by the utter absurdity and bitter mockery in this book, as I am now such a skeptic, sensitive to all the ridiculousness in our daily life that echoed what they had expressed half a century ago. I thank my Czech boyfriend who gave me the book for the enlightenment.(展开)
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0 有用 半个桃李林檎 2012-09-25 00:32:56
目前为止读过的昆德拉小说中最没有感觉的一部，还是多人物叙事，还是苏联影响下的时代，有复仇也有救赎，可是除了Lucie，其他人物都不讨人喜欢，结尾也是，个人觉得颓而无望
1 有用 Ainsley Hayes 2021-01-30 00:24:45
时隔两年又一次搞Kundera Marathon 这次真的是觉得这本才是Kundera价值集大成 虽然这其实是Kundera的第一本作品～manipulation of syntactical patterns, time & point of view都是教科书级别
0 有用 阿奇 2020-02-19 11:24:05
是时候检验一下是这本小说不合我胃口还是我英语水平不行了）
0 有用 刘北托 2020-05-09 15:34:41
bb王老昆。
1 有用 blackcatstubby 2009-07-28 10:08:52
A very HEAVY book. It lacks the sense of detachment which i usually look for in stories. Love the folk song theme, from where the deprived souls are lost and saved.
1 有用 Ainsley Hayes 2021-01-30 00:24:45
时隔两年又一次搞Kundera Marathon 这次真的是觉得这本才是Kundera价值集大成 虽然这其实是Kundera的第一本作品～manipulation of syntactical patterns, time & point of view都是教科书级别
0 有用 快藏起来 2020-11-14 22:22:41
I dare say I have been deeply influenced by the utter absurdity and bitter mockery in this book, as I am now such a skeptic, sensitive to all the ridiculousness in our daily life that echoed what they... I dare say I have been deeply influenced by the utter absurdity and bitter mockery in this book, as I am now such a skeptic, sensitive to all the ridiculousness in our daily life that echoed what they had expressed half a century ago. I thank my Czech boyfriend who gave me the book for the enlightenment. (展开)
0 有用 刘北托 2020-05-09 15:34:41
bb王老昆。
0 有用 阿奇 2020-02-19 11:24:05
是时候检验一下是这本小说不合我胃口还是我英语水平不行了）
0 有用 半个桃李林檎 2012-09-25 00:32:56
目前为止读过的昆德拉小说中最没有感觉的一部，还是多人物叙事，还是苏联影响下的时代，有复仇也有救赎，可是除了Lucie，其他人物都不讨人喜欢，结尾也是，个人觉得颓而无望