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Milan Kundera •ï¿½38 Items / 13 Books, 24 Articles, 1 Review
The Joke (1967)
by Milan Kundera
A Novel of Czechoslovakia Today
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Published Reviews
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    Fiction (Review)
    Vasa D. Mihailovich
    The Joke, by Milan Kundera
    1. The Joke by Milan Kundera
    The Saturday Review, December 20, 1969, p. 31
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    Czech Voice (Review)
    Josephine Woll
    The Joke, by Milan Kundera
    1. The Joke by Milan Kundera
    The New Republic, February 14, 1983, pp. 30-31
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    Fiction: Letting Go (Review)
    D. Keith Mano
    The Joke, by Milan Kundera
    1. The Joke by Milan Kundera
    National Review, January 21, 1983, p. 59
  4. Books
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    The World of Milan Kundera (Review)
    A.J. Liehm
    The Joke, by Milan Kundera
    1. The Joke by Milan Kundera
    Dissent, Winter 1983, pp. 110-113
  5. Opinions & Views
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    Literature & Ur-Reality (2 Reviews)
    Gary S. Vasilash
    The Loser, by George Konrad
    1. The Loser by George Konrad
    2. The Joke by Milan Kundera
    Chronicles, May 1983, pp. 6-7
  6. Fiction chronicle
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    Going east (3 Reviews)
    Joshua Gilder
    The Joke, by Milan Kundera
    1. The Joke by Milan Kundera
    2. The Questionnaire by Jiri Grusa
    3. The Frog Who Dared to Croak by Richard Sennett
    The New Criterion, January 1983, pp. 87-90
  7. Books
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    How the Other Half Lives (3 Reviews)
    John Updike
    Moscow Circles, by Benedict Erofeev
    1. Moscow Circles by Benedict Erofeev
    2. The Joke by Milan Kundera
    3. The Polish Complex by Tadeusz Konwicki
    The New Yorker, February 21, 1983, pp. 126-131
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    Time and Distance (4 Reviews)
    Tom Wilhelmus
    The Famished Road, by Ben Okri
    1. The Famished Road by Ben Okri
    2. The Real Thing by Doris May Lessing
    3. The Volcano Lover by Susan Sontag
    4. The Joke by Milan Kundera
    The Hudson Review, Spring 1993, pp. 247-254
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    Live Attraction (4 Reviews)
    D.A.N. Jones
    The Joke, by Milan Kundera
    1. The Joke by Milan Kundera
    2. The Tongues of Man by John Schultz
    3. The Great American Jackpot by Herbert Gold
    4. The Simultaneous Man by Ralph Blum
    The New York Review of Books, May 21, 1970, pp. 35-36
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    Reading List (5 Reviews)
    Cristina Nehring
    Was It Something I Said?
    1. Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Garden of Cyrus by Thomas Browne
    2. Samson Agonistes, and Shorter Poems by John Milton
    3. The Joke by Milan Kundera
    4. Philip Larkin: Collected Poems by Anthony Thwaite and Philip Larkin
    5. Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
    The Atlantic Monthly, April 2005, p. 103
  11. Reviews
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    Sex and the Single Novel (9 Reviews)
    Joseph Epstein
    A Boy's Own Story, by Edmund White
    1. A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White
    2. Oxbridge Blues, and Other Plays for Television by Frederic Raphael
    3. The Joke by Milan Kundera
    4. Rabbis and Wives by Chaim Grade
    5. In the City of Fear by Ward Just
    6. Mantissa by John Fowles
    7. Dr. Rocksinger and the Age of Longing by Jill Robinson
    8. Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa
    9. No Fond Return of Love by Barbara Pym
    The Hudson Review, Spring 1983, pp. 172-186
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    Short Reviews (10 Reviews)
    Phoebe-Lou Adams
    Christina's World, by Betsy James Wyeth
    1. Christina's World by Betsy James Wyeth
    2. Remarkable Relations by Barbara Strachey
    3. The Water Flowers by Edward Gorey
    4. The Extraordinary Landscape by William Garnett
    5. The Joke by Milan Kundera
    6. The Hazards of Walking, and Other Memos from Your Bureaucrats by Carol Trueblood and Donna Fenn
    7. Owen D. Young and American Enterprise by Josephine Young Case and Everett Needham Case, ...
    8. Ronald Searle's Big Fat Cat Book by Ronald Searle
    9. When the Snakes Awake by Helmut Tributsch
    10. Murder for Christmas by Thomas Godfrey
    The Atlantic Monthly, January 1983, pp. 103-109