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  <default-description>This is the first novel by the author of &quot;Immortality&quot;, which won &quot;The Independent&quot; Award for Foreign Fiction in 1991. Milan Kundera is also the author of &quot;The Book of Laughter and Fogetting&quot;.</default-description>
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  <original-title>The Joke</original-title>
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      <name><![CDATA[فروغ پوریاوری]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 11 22:59:16 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[On Monday at around 3 o'clock in the afternoon I decided I was going to read &quot;The Joke.&quot; I don't really know why; it occurred to me out of the blue -- the only thought I'd ever given Kundera before that point was that the titles of his books obviously lived in a world devoid of irony in or...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17515418">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50694">
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  <date_added>Sat Feb 17 00:31:36 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like Kundra because he doesn’t imprison me in a fastened frame of a classic narration. Reading Kundra seems as if you meet an old friend after ages in a cafe shop, and while she/he relates her / his life story, you zip your coffee, listen to the cafe music, hear some chats and laughs at nabourin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50694">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10495497">
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Dec 16 04:24:23 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[شوخي از اولين رمانهاي ميلان كوندراست كه ما با سرخوردگي هاي مردي مواجه مي شويم كه يك شوخي با اصول حزب كمونيست چكسلواكي سالهاي دهه 1960 تمامي زندگي اش زير و رو مي شود.خوش ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10495497">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9525020">
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  <date_added>Sun Nov 25 14:05:58 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Dec 27 07:54:01 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this book in my spare time during a short stint working in a bookstore and it immediately and I dare say permanently lodged itself into my list of beloved books.<br/><br/>Why this book's rating lies below four stars befuddles me. It's an exciting and provocative tale of the dehumanization of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9525020">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5995324">
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  <read_at>Mon Feb 25 15:47:41 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm sure that politically-speaking, it's just as impactful as the Unbearable Lightness of Being (perhaps moreso), but in the case of ULB, I couldn't put it down.<br/><br/>Milan doesn't tell a story in a straight-forward, boring manner-- instead mixes up the chronology of sections of the story and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5995324">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2776424">
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Jul 06 12:37:51 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[There were definitely times when I wanted to breakdown about my own life while reading this book.  I wanted to shake my fist and curse the powers that be for being cruel tricksters for playing us all in one long painful joke.  However, what do you do at the end of the joke?  Laugh.  This book inspir...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2776424">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40774934">
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  <date_added>Tue Dec 23 13:08:27 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[i read this book in two days, and found myself picturing viggo mortensen as ludvik jahn. it rarely happens that i pick an actor's face for the imagined visuals of a book, so i felt like mentioning it. <br/><br/>the tale is steeped in a liquid-like sadness.  it is one of those books, where i am not...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40774934">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50288357">
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 09 20:47:54 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[There's something about this book that reminds me of &quot;Snow&quot; - something about the author returning to his hometown after a lot of political and personal change has taken place, and trying to reconcile those incongruities. Or not trying to reconcile them, but taking them apart, and remarkin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50288357">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41645135">
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Jan 04 17:36:30 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was rather a letdown from his other novels, but since it was his first novel it is only to be expected that it would lack the polish of his later works. It seemed to consist mainly of him feeling out what he wanted to do, and it has some early snippets of the haunting beauty and immense letdown...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41645135">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61646395">
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Un bouquin très éloigné de mes lectures habituelles, mais Festival du Livre du Cercle des Huit oblige... me voilà contrainte et forcée de découvrir un tout autre univers que celui de la fantasy dans lequel je baigne souvent. Qu'en ressort-il ? J'ai lu La Plaisanterie d'une traite, me demandant...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61646395">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65143469">
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Finally got some literature in this month, I was beginning to forget to think... This book has acute observations of human nature and history, and was interesting because Communism in Czechoslovakia is a foreign time and place to me. I liked the format because it revealed so much of each character a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65143469">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="70933003">
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[شاید باورش سخت باشد ولی انقدر قدرت تصویر گری شخصیت یا شخصیت ÷ردازی کندرا زیاد است که با شخصیت لوسی در فصل 7 این داستان ارتباط نزدیکی پیدا کردم انگار که سال هاست او را م...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70933003">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48574471">
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  <read_at>Sun May 15 00:00:00 -0700 1988</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A brilliant, painful book.]]></body>
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    <review id="43192380">
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Kundera. He has such a nice style, such a way of mixing his narrator's storytelling with his own philosophical insights, full of lamentations of love, existence, and here, revenge, injustice, the belief in a movement and the death of a movement, all while mixing in the backdrop of Communist B...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43192380">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9587741">
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    <body><![CDATA[Milan Kundera’s The Joke shrugs off the typical narrative arc and offers several narrators to the Communist period in Czechoslovakia.  Ruined by an offhand comment, Ludivik is forced out of the Communist party and sent to a work camp for reeducation.   This novel imposes Kundera’s penchant for s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9587741">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8035987">
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    <name><![CDATA[Tavi]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Nov 02 23:01:21 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Milan Kundera has a talent for giving his characters rich inner voices, with keen powers of introspection, and an uncanny capability to analyze and articulate their feelings. All of its characters are flawed, yet all have redeeming qualities, and I can relate, in turn, with all of them.<br/><br/>T...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8035987">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was really tremendous the second time around, and the characters' actions as analogues for political fundamentals were extra fascinating and fun. I went to a lecture by Greg Kot and Jim Derogatis (from Sound Opinions, the NPR radio show produced here in Chicago) and they spoke about how mu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4477568">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was on the reading list for a planned semester in Prague for a writing intensive. The program fell apart, so I just got around to reading now, even though I did eventually go to Prague on holiday a couple of years ago. Same as with Slovakia, the only other pre-Eastern Block country I've vi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4147995">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite Kundera novel (his first!). A paragon of understated, thoughtful prose. Combine that with a taut plot that routinely surprises the most cynical of prognosticators (that would be me); and Kundera's fearlessness in wrestling with The Big Human Issues, and we have something approaching Kund...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1819605">more...</a>]]></body>
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