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Shades of the Rocky movies: This is English translation number five of Kundera's 1967 novel. The novel itself is one of the mordant fictions of Kundera's Czech-period--the story of a youthful jape made by a young man, Ludvik Jahn, a joke that escapes all proportions in the unnatural quiet of repression and fear of the tone-deaf state. In an odd way, it may be Kundera's most musical fiction, all about over- and under-tones. But the arrogant meanspiritedness Kundera exhibits here in his foreword about inaccuracies in Michael Henry Heim's 1982 Harper ``retranslation'' of the first American edition (1969 Coward McCann) amounts to not much more than a literary tantrum: ``...In good conscience he [Heim] produced the kind of translation that one might call translation-adaptation (adaptation to the taste of the time and of the country for which it is intended, to the taste, in the final analysis, of the translator). Is this the current, normal practice? It's possible. But unacceptable. Unacceptable to me.'' So, Kundera tells us, he set to work on what we're now to take as the ``definitive version'': ``On enlarged photocopies of the fourth version, I entered word-for-word translations of my original, either in English or in French, wherever I thought necessary...and soon I realized that...a new, fifth version was taking shape.'' What's this, the Dead Sea Scrolls? Translators, writers, readers, all can be offended by the authorial gracelessness, publishing astigmatism, and general waste of paper this amounts to. Buy someone's first novel instead. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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This fifth English-language version of the ingenious first novel by the best-selling author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being ( LJ 5/1/84) is based on Michael Henry Heim's translation (Harper & Row, 1984), which Kundera originally praised but found wanting after more careful review. The new version replaces words and phrases with more idiomatic or precise substitutes, occasionally recasting whole sentences. As a result, the narrators are better differentiated and the language more alive and natural, particularly in the reflective passages. The story of Ludvik Jahn's misfired joke, which ruins his life by giving him a reputation as an enemy of the state, and his equally misfired attempt at revenge (seduction of the wife of the Party official he holds responsible for his misfortune) is well worth reading--and purchasing--again in this definitive version fully revised by the author.
- Marie Bednar, Pennsylvania State Univ. Libs., University Park
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
- Marie Bednar, Pennsylvania State Univ. Libs., University Park
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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This book was my first experience with Kundera, and a wonderfule place to start to get to know this author. The experiences of the main character, Ludvik, are heart-wrenching. They are unfair. Yet he bears them with strength and whatever dignity he can muster. No American could have written this book. Ludvik, while anti-Communist, is as un-American as they come. Yet, he is human, and a reader can relate to his losses, his sorrows, his rage.
With this book, Kundera opened my eyes to an unfamiliar life, and an unimagined way of creating literature.
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I loved the Joke, just for the humanity of its characters. I particulary liek the ending because there is a sense of completion, and one feels that the characters have ended up where they were because of the nature of their chracters.
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Is it "arrogant meanspiritedness", "authorial gracelessness",and "publishing astigmatism" to ask for a reasonable and honest translation? To ask that a translator save his "creative" flights for his own works? I say it is not. I say readers are more likely to be offended at and have a right to be offended at an unfaithful translation (as well as at the Kirkus review above). This is a brilliant book well worth the care Milan Kundera took with it, well worth the care Milan Kundera took with its re-translation.
Also recommended: PENTATONIC SCALES FOR THE JAZZ-ROCK KEYBOARDIST by Jeff Burns.
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An existentialist commentary
I was curious to see how many readers emphasized the political aspects of this book rather than the existentialist life philosophy which is exemplified. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 21. April 1999 veröffentlicht
what Kundera might've been
Before he slowly became completely self-absorbed and deluded himself into thinking that he had something new to say, culminating in the awful Unbearable Lightness of Being, Kundera... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 19. März 1999 veröffentlicht
Insightful About Life Under Communism
I learned more from this book about life under Communism than from pages and pages of political science text at college. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 18. März 1999 veröffentlicht
The "Joke" is a metaphor for the Communist system in E. Eur.
Kundera's work "The Joke" is an intricate metaphor which describes the impact of the communist system in east central Europe. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 3. Dezember 1998 veröffentlicht
Spell-Binding
This is perhaps not Kundera's most developed work; however, the entire situation and issues explored are engaging. You can't put it down. It reads in one sitting
Am 24. August 1998 veröffentlicht
An insight into self actualization
I have always wondered about the thought process of a self actualized being. Could never make up my mind whether the term self actualization applied to Colonel Auerliano of... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 21. Juli 1998 veröffentlicht
Thought - provoking
A beautiful book about the eternal human search for meaning in a short-lived society that claimed to have all the answers.
Am 29. Juni 1998 veröffentlicht
A magic art of Kundera to capture our personal feeling.
Because of a joke, Ludvik is accused of having betrayed his party. When he is condemned he loses every certainty realizing that any attempt of defence is useless. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 14. Juni 1998 veröffentlicht
Good but not Kundera at his height
'The Joke' is, no doubt, a fine book. Yet compared to Kundera's other works, it fails to impress me. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 24. März 1998 veröffentlicht
A great book of love and socialism.
The story is developed strangely at the begining of the book; nevertheless we can infer most of the character's "leitmotive" when you have already read the third chapter. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 4. Mai 1997 veröffentlicht
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