The Joke.
“Because to live in a world in which no one is forgiven, where all are irredeemable, is the same as living in hell": First Edition of The Joke; Signed by Milan Kundera
The Joke.
KUNDERA, Milan.
Item Number: 2942
New York: Coward McCann, 1969.
First edition of the author’s first novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the author on the half title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket with just a touch of shelfwear. Originally published in Czech as Zert.
Milan Kundera 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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