He is expelled from the Communist Party, forced to leave the university and join a special army unit with other enemies of the state. Looking back on the tense, McCarthy-like atmosphere of the late 1940s, it chronicles the disastrous results of Ludvik's prankish postcard to a girlfriend criticizing the Czech communist regime. In this new English-language version of Kundera's classic first novel, completely revised by the author to incorporate the most accurate portions of two previous translations plus his own corrections, the narrator Ludvik wonders, "What if History plays jokes?" This politically charged question, coupled with Ludvik's fate as an unintentional dissident, struck a chord in Czech readers the novel's 1967 publication was a key literary event of the Prague Spring.
A great novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried, in a completely revised translation that is nothing less than the restoration of a classic.
The authoritative version of the brilliant first novel by the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
Schools & English Language Center Discount.
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