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Name: Žert
Rating: 4.4 (5 reviews)
Author: Milan Kundera

Žert follows Ludvík, a man whose personal tragedy is forever linked to a misunderstood joke. In this political and didactic novel, the author exposes how a loss of sense of humor corrodes social conditions and government life in Czechoslovakia, turning irony into a tool of repression.

First publish date: November 1991

Genre: Political Fiction/Political Drama

Authors: Milan Kundera

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