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All too often, this brilliant book of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its politics implications. Now, a quarter century after The Joke was first published and many years after the collapse of the Soviet-imposed Czechoslovak plan, it becomes simpler to put such implications into perspective in favor of valuing the booklet (and all Kundera 's work) as what it truly is: great, stirring literature that sheds new light on the eternal topics of human existence. The present audio edition provides English-language listeners an important further means toward revaluation of The Joke. For reasons he details in his Author's Notice, Milan Kundera devoted enough time to creating (with the help of his American publisher-editor) a totally revised translation that reflects his original as closely as any translation are able to: reflects it in its fidelity not and then what and syntax but also to the characteristic dictions and tonalities of the novel's narrators. The effect is nothing significantly less than the restoration of the classic.
