The Joke

Name: The Joke
Author: Milan Kundera

by Milan Kundera

Novel where student's cruel practical joke triggers chain of tragic consequences

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Milan Kundera

Czech-French novelist whose work explores the political and erotic dimensions of human existence under totalitarianism. The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting are celebrated as masterpieces of late 20th-century fiction.

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