KUNDERA, Milan.
Žert [The Joke].
Prague, Československý spisovatel, 1967.
8vo, pp. 292, [3]; a very good copy in the original cloth, original illustrated dustjacket by Václav Požárek.
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Žert [The Joke].
First edition of Kundera’s first novel, The Joke, which gives a satirical account of the political atmosphere in Czechoslovakia in the 1950s.
It tells the story of a young Communist whose life is ruined because of a harmless, joking reference to Trotsky in a postcard to his girlfriend. The Joke, together with all Kundera’s books, was banned after the Soviet invasion in 1968. A film adaptation by Jaromil Jireš with Kundera’s approval, also 1968, was similarly banned.