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韦慰 芦螒蟽蟿蔚委慰禄, 蟿慰 渭蠀胃喂蟽蟿蠈蟻畏渭伪 渭蔚 蟿慰 慰蟺慰委慰 苇纬喂谓蔚 蟺伪纬魏慰蟽渭委蠅蟼 纬谓蠅蟽蟿蠈蟼 慰 螠委位伪谓 螝慰蠉谓蟿蔚蟻伪, 魏蠀魏位慰蠁慰蟻蔚委 魏伪喂 蟺维位喂, 30 蠂蟻蠈谓喂伪 苇蟺蔚喂蟿伪 伪蟺蠈 蟿畏谓 蟺蟻蠋蟿畏 蟿慰蠀 苇魏未慰蟽畏 蟽蟿畏 蠂蠋蟻伪 渭伪蟼, 蟽蔚 谓苇伪 渭蔚蟿维蠁蟻伪蟽畏, 渭蔚 尾维蟽畏 蟿畏谓 伪谓伪胃蔚蠅蟻畏渭苇谓畏, 慰蟻喂蟽蟿喂魏萎 苇魏未慰蟽畏 蟿慰蠀 苇蟻纬慰蠀, 蟺慰蠀 蟺蟻伪纬渭伪蟿慰蟺慰喂萎胃畏魏蔚 蟽蟿伪 纬伪位位喂魏维 伪蟺蠈 蟿慰谓 蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁苇伪.

芦螣 慰蟺蟿喂渭喂蟽渭蠈蟼 蔚委谓伪喂 蟿慰 蠈蟺喂慰 蟿慰蠀 位伪慰蠉. 韦慰 蠀纬喂苇蟼 蟺谓蔚蠉渭伪 尾蟻慰渭维蔚喂 尾位伪魏蔚委伪. 螙萎蟿蠅 慰 韦蟻蠈蟿蟽魏喂.禄 螠蔚 伪蠀蟿维 蟿伪 位蠈纬喂伪 胃苇位畏蟽蔚 谓伪 蟺蔚喂蟻维尉蔚喂 蟿畏谓 蔚谓胃慰蠀蟽喂蠋未畏 蠁委位畏 蟿慰蠀 慰 螞慰蠉谓蟿尾喂蠂, 慰 萎蟻蠅伪蟼 蟿慰蠀 尾喂尾位委慰蠀. 螝伪喂 纬喂' 伪蠀蟿蠈 蟿慰 伪蟽蟿蔚委慰 胃伪 未喂伪纬蟻伪蠁蔚委 伪蟺蠈 蟿慰 魏蠈渭渭伪, 胃伪 伪蟺慰尾位畏胃蔚委 伪蟺蠈 蟿慰 蟺伪谓蔚蟺喂蟽蟿萎渭喂慰, 胃伪 魏伪蟿伪蟿伪纬蔚委 蟽蟿慰 蟽蟿蟻伪蟿蠈 蟽蔚 蟿维纬渭伪 芦蟿喂渭蠅蟻畏渭苇谓蠅谓禄 魏伪喂 胃伪 蠀蟺畏蟻蔚蟿萎蟽蔚喂 蟿畏 胃畏蟿蔚委伪 蟿慰蠀 未慰蠀位蔚蠉慰谓蟿伪蟼 蟽蟿伪 慰蟻蠀蠂蔚委伪, 蟽蟿伪 慰蟺慰委伪 胃伪 蟺伪蟻伪渭蔚委谓蔚喂 芦蔚胃蔚位慰谓蟿喂魏维禄 维位位伪 蟿蟻委伪 蠂蟻蠈谓喂伪.

韦慰 芦螒蟽蟿蔚委慰禄 纬蟻维蠁蟿畏魏蔚 蟿慰 1965 魏伪喂 蟺蟻蠈位伪尾蔚 谓伪 蔚魏未慰胃蔚委 蟽蟿畏谓 韦蟽蔚蠂慰蟽位慰尾伪魏委伪 蟿慰 1967. 韦畏谓 蔚蟺慰蠂萎 蟿畏蟼 芦维谓慰喂尉畏蟼 蟿畏蟼 螤蟻维纬伪蟼禄 魏伪喂 蟿慰蠀 尾委伪喂慰蠀 蟿蔚蟻渭伪蟿喂蟽渭慰蠉 蟿畏蟼 渭蔚 蟿畏谓 蔚喂蟽尾慰位萎 蟿蠅谓 蟻蠅蟽喂魏蠋谓 蟿伪谓魏蟼, 蟿慰 芦螒蟽蟿蔚委慰禄 伪蟺慰蟿蔚位慰蠉蟽蔚 渭喂伪 畏蠂畏蟻萎 魏伪蟿伪纬纬蔚位委伪 蟿慰蠀 蟽慰尾喂蔚蟿喂魏慰蠉 蟽慰蟽喂伪位喂蟽蟿喂魏慰蠉 渭慰谓蟿苇位慰蠀路 苇纬喂谓蔚 苇蟿蟽喂 蟿慰 芦蔚蠀伪纬纬苇位喂慰 蟿畏蟼 蔚蟺慰蠂萎蟼禄 魏伪喂 纬谓蠋蟻喂蟽蔚 蟿蔚蟻维蟽蟿喂伪 蔚蟺喂蟿蠀蠂委伪 未喂蔚胃谓蠋蟼.

韦慰 委未喂慰 蟽蠀谓苇尾畏 魏伪喂 蟽蟿畏谓 螘位位维未伪, 蠈蟺慰蠀 魏蠀魏位慰蠁蠈蟻畏蟽蔚 蟿慰 1971, 渭蔚 蟿畏谓 蔚蟺喂蟺位苇慰谓 蠁蠈蟻蟿喂蟽畏 蟺慰蠀 蟽蠀谓蔚蟺伪纬蠈蟿伪谓 纬喂伪 渭伪蟼 畏 未喂魏蟿伪蟿慰蟻委伪 蟿畏蟼 21畏蟼 螒蟺蟻喂位委慰蠀 魏伪喂 畏 谓蠅蟺萎 未喂维蟽蟺伪蟽畏 蟿慰蠀 魏慰渭渭慰蠀谓喂蟽蟿喂魏慰蠉 魏蠈渭渭伪蟿慰蟼. 螆蟿蟽喂 蠀蟺蔚蟻蟿慰谓委蟽蟿畏魏蔚 魏伪喂 蔚未蠋 畏 蟺慰位喂蟿喂魏萎 未喂维蟽蟿伪蟽畏 蟿慰蠀 苇蟻纬慰蠀 魏伪喂 蟺伪蟻伪渭蔚蟻委蟽蟿畏魏蔚 畏 魏伪胃伪蠀蟿蠈 渭蠀胃喂蟽蟿慰蟻畏渭伪蟿喂魏萎 蟿慰蠀 伪尉委伪. 螕喂' 伪蠀蟿蠈 魏伪喂 蟺伪蟻慰蠀蟽喂维味蔚喂 蔚谓未喂伪蠁苇蟻慰谓 谓伪 蟿慰 蔚蟺伪谓伪蟺蟻慰蟽蔚纬纬委蟽慰蠀渭蔚 蟽萎渭蔚蟻伪, 苇蟺蔚喂蟿伪 伪蟺蠈 蟿蟻喂维谓蟿伪 蠂蟻蠈谓喂伪, 魏伪喂 谓伪 蟿慰 伪谓伪魏伪位蠉蠄慰蠀渭蔚 蟽蟿喂蟼 蟺蟻伪纬渭伪蟿喂魏苇蟼 蟿慰蠀 未喂伪蟽蟿维蟽蔚喂蟼, 谓伪 伪谓伪魏伪位蠉蠄慰蠀渭蔚 尾伪蟽喂魏维, 蟺委蟽蠅 伪蟺蠈 蟿畏谓 蠀蟺慰蟿喂胃苇渭蔚谓畏 蟺慰位喂蟿喂魏萎 魏伪蟿伪纬纬蔚位委伪, 蟿慰 纬谓蠅蟽蟿蠈 渭伪蟼 苇魏蟿慰蟿蔚, 喂未喂蠈蟿蠀蟺慰 魏慰蠀谓蟿蔚蟻喂魏蠈 蠂喂慰蠉渭慰蟻.
(蔚蠁畏渭蔚蟻委未伪 芦螚 螝伪胃畏渭蔚蟻喂谓萎禄, 9/6/2002)

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First published January 1, 1967

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Milan Kundera

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Milan Kundera (1 April 1929 鈥� 11 July 2023) was a Czech and French novelist. He went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981. His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.

Kundera wrote in Czech and French. He revises the French translations of all his books; people therefore consider these original works as not translations. He is best known for his novels, including The Joke (1967), The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979), and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), all of which exhibit his extreme though often comical skepticism.

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On Monday at around 3 o'clock in the afternoon I decided I was going to read "The Joke." 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 order to persist in their existence, and that that unironic world was one I wanted no part of. On the other hand, I really liked the title "The Joke" and I'd always liked the font in which it was written. That was about all I needed, so I took the train over to the Strand and picked up their only copy (Shhh -- it was fate!).

Anyway, now it's about 1:30 AM on Wednesday and I just finished the book, so I'm having a Moment. Luckily, the pensive/sad confusion I was left with upon finishing the book had worked itself out in my head even before I'd finished spreading jam on my Post-Reading Biscuit (not an allegory, I actually did just eat a biscuit): "The Joke" is basically about that moment when you realize that the past has just caught up with you/resolved itself/tortured you for far longer than it needed.

It reminds me of this time a few years ago when I started sobbing over old photos of myself as a little kid one night while I was at my parents' house. I sort of ended up burying my head in my mother's lap and she said something shockingly insightful, just about the most shockingly insightful thing she's ever said to me -- that sometimes we feel sad about the past just because we can't get it back, and that's okay. The implication -- which was clear then but I've lost in the re-telling -- was that even the parts of the past that aren't all that significant are overwhelmingly ultimate in their "lost-ness" with the passage of time, and the shock of that can often be kind of crushing, but our reaction to that (in my case, sobbing and snotting all over my mother's lap and afghan) is totally human and completely all right.

It's weird I remember that, because "The Joke" is actually not about inconsequential parts of the past. It's about the earth-shattering bits that shape a person (for better or worse), as well as the slow, creeping dissatisfaction of regret. This is probably what most first novels are about, because why else would a beginning writer finally commit all those words to paper for the first time if they weren't plagued by something they wanted to release, i.e. themselves from i.e. the past?

Right. So probably most first novels are about this, but "The Joke" pretends to be about a lot of other things before that, which is its trick. It relaxes you with detached and dated political analysis and historical references and discussions of music and quirky post-modern unreliable narrators and Wuthering Heights-esque generation-spanning love.

But in the last fifty pages or so it starts twisting and revealing itself, almost clumsily, and by the end you realize it's so freaking obvious! No wonder that for the past two days you've inexplicably been thinking about the sadnesses of your own life and your past relationships and people you know who've died. And no wonder you're sitting up in the middle of the night writing a confessional missive on the internet wankfest that is 欧宝娱乐. That's ALL THAT FREAKING BOOK WAS ABOUT! And you can't even tell what part of what you're thinking is something that happened in the book and what part is something that happened to you.

Anyway. The other thing is that there aren't any actual jokes in it. And maybe I was at my most pure when I was seventeen. The End.
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(Book 402 from 1001 books) - 沤ert = The Joke, Milan Kundera

The Joke is Milan Kundera's first novel, originally published in 1967.

The novel is composed of many jokes, which have strong effects on the characters. The story is told from the four viewpoints of Ludvik Jahn, Helena Zem谩nkov谩, Kostka, and Jaroslav.

Jaroslav's joke is the transition away from his coveted Moravian folk lifestyle and appreciation. Kostka, who has separated himself from the Communist Party due to his Christianity, serves as a counterpoint to Ludvik.

Helena serves as Ludvik's victim and is satirical of the seriousness of party supporters. Ludvik demonstrates the shortcomings of the party and propels the plot in his search for revenge and redemption.

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Primul roman al lui Kundera (terminat 卯n decembrie 1965, publicat abia 卯n 1967). Mai pu葲in eseu dec卯t 卯n celelalte romane. Ac葲iunea e prilej de medita葲ie, dar reflec葲iile personajelor (葯i numai ale personajelor) se 卯nscriu firesc 卯n desf膬葯urarea evenimentelor, nu s卯nt excesive 葯i nu fac romanul artificios (precum Insuportabila u葯ur膬tate a fiin葲ei). Deocamdat膬, 鈥瀡ocea auctorial膬鈥� lipse葯te.

Gluma m-a dus cu g卯ndul la romanul rusesc din secolul al XIX-lea.. De pild膬, Lucia 艩ebestkova 葯i 鈥瀖卯ntuitorul鈥� ei, Kostka, s卯nt personaje dostoievskiene. Eroii 卯葯i rememoreaz膬 gre葯elile, p膬catele 葯i conchid c膬 鈥瀡ia葲a 葯i-a b膬tut joc de ei鈥�. Destinul e c卯t se poate de ironic, m膬car 卯n cazul lui Jahn Ludv铆k 葯i Kostka. Am卯ndoi au fost st膬p卯ni葲i de idei despotice, de pasiuni nemiloase, am卯ndoi au fost am膬gi葲i (ori s-au am膬git singuri), nici unul nu g膬se葯te o solu葲ie izb膬vitoare. Vie葲ile lor pornesc de la o glum膬, continu膬 ca fars膬 (uneori, tragic膬) 葯i se rezolv膬 卯n caricatura cea mai trivial膬. M膬 refer, fire葯te, la episodul final cu Helena Zem谩nkov谩. Femeia 卯ncearc膬 s膬 se sinucid膬 din dragoste, dar 卯nghite, din gre葯eal膬, un pumn de laxative. S膬 ajungi 卯ntr-un closet, fiindc膬 iube葯ti n膬prasnic un b膬rbat f膬r膬 scrupule, fiindc膬 vrei s膬-l pedepse葯ti, pare (葯i chiar este) o nedreptate strig膬toare la cer.

脦ntr-un eseu din Arta romanului (2022, pp.109-110), Milan Kundera afirm膬 c膬 a construit cu maxim膬 aten葲ie arhitectura romanului. Un roman nu trebuie s膬 fie inform (ca Omul f膬r膬 卯nsu葯iri, de exemplu):
鈥濵onologul lui Ludv铆k ocup膬 2/3 din carte, monologurile celorlal牛i 卯mpreun膬, ocup膬 1/3 din carte (Jaroslav 1/6, Kostka 1/9, Helena 1/18). Prin aceast膬 structur膬 matematic膬 este determinat膬 ceea ce a艧 numi punerea 卯n lumin膬 a personajelor. Ludv铆k se afl膬 卯n plin膬 lumin膬, luminat 艧i din interior (prin propriul lui monolog) 艧i din exterior (toate celelalte personaje 卯i traseaz膬 portretul), Jaroslav ocup膬 prin monologul lui o 艧esime a c膬r牛ii, iar autoportretul lui e modelat din exterior de monologul lui Ludv铆k. Et caetera. Fiecare personaj e luminat cu o alt膬 intensitate 艧i 卯ntr-un mod diferit. Lucia, unul dintre personajele cele mai importante, nu are un monolog al ei 艧i e luminat膬 doar din exterior de monologurile lui Ludv铆k 艧i Kostka. Absen牛a lumin膬rii interioare 卯i d膬 un caracter misterios 艧i insesizabil. Ea se g膬se艧te, ca s膬 spun a艧a, de cealalt膬 parte a geamului, nu poate fi atins膬鈥�.

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The Set Up

Milan Kundera wrote this, his first, novel in his early 30's.

I had already read and loved two later works, and was expecting it to be somehow inferior, as if he was still learning the ropes. However, it's an amazingly mature novel, and could fit anywhere in his body of work.

For all its metaphysical concerns, the writing style is very much concerned with the material world and the dynamism within it. Philosophy derives partly from the activity of external factors. The first person narrators discover what people are thinking indirectly from their actions. Kundera observes and describes a character's behaviour rather than dwelling directly on their psychology. We see what characters have done, then we see them come undone. Bit by bit, by accumulation of knowledge, we start to understand why.

The novel plays out like a tense game of chess. Every move is precisely choreographed. Kundera sets the characters off on their journey, then follows them with his camera. And we follow him. Sometimes the work reads like a novelisation of a film or play. It portrays exactly what we see. Not a word is wasted.

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The Joke

The concept of a joke pervades the novel. The title derives from a postcard the protagonist, Ludvik, writes to Marketa, the target of his affection, while she is studying Marxism in a Czech summer school in the early 60's:

"Optimism is the opium of the people! A healthy atmosphere stinks of stupidity! Long live Trotsky!"

The postcard is discovered by the Communist authorities, and after a brief investigation, hearing and vote, Ludvik is expelled from the Party, sacked from his teaching position at a university and sent off to work in a mine with enemies of the state.

Despite her beauty, Marketa is credulous, intellectually dull and lacking in a sense of humour. Ludvik's postcard is an attempt to play a silly joke on Marketa. However, the joke is lost on both Marketa and the state.

The Trap

In his preface, Kundera denies that the novel was designed to be a "major indictment of Stalinism". Instead, he argues that it's a love story. It is that, but I think he's being just a little ingenuous. Kundera pays equal attention to the political. Whether or not society had similar problems under Communism and Capitalism, Kundera describes a rigidity and humourlessness that affects both individuals and the state. Later, he would write of "the trap the world has become".

The underlying problem is both social and political: the tendency of both the individual and the state to be overly serious, inflexible, self-protective and punitive.

Whatever the political system, a sense of humour is a safety valve that allows pent up personal and social pressures to escape. Humour can relax, relieve and release tension (not to mention pretension).

If humour isn't possible or it doesn't work in the circumstances, the person, the collective remains too highly-strung, too highly sprung. The joke is a spring, a coil that allows the situation to uncoil and the tension to dissipate. A joke is what allows a tree to bend and sway in the wind.

The Structure

Kundera tells his tale in seven separate parts, each of which is divided into sub-parts. Each part is narrated by one of the major characters, three men, and one woman (Helena). One of the other characters, Lucie, is a trigger point for much of the action. However, she doesn't tell her own story. Instead, the other characters shine a light on her from outside. We are never confident that we have gotten to know her. She remains elusive.

After publication, a Czech critic observed that there was a mathematical structure to the novel (that wasn't apparent to Kundera himself). If you broke the novel into 18 parts, Ludvik's monologue took up 12, Jaroslav three, Kostka two, and Helena one. I can't help picturing this as a fern-like fractal that furls and unfurls in the telling. Thus, the coiling and uncoiling of the joke (and its aftermath) is reflected in the structure of the novel.

The Punch Line

Apart from the joke, as Kundera states, the novel is a love story. We see most of it from Ludvik's twenty/thirty-something point of view. We see what he does to women and why. It's not always a pretty picture, but it is truthful. Ludvik's goal isn't always his own sexual pleasure or that of his companion. His relationship with Helena (whose story we hear from her) is motivated by revenge on a rival (which proves to be misconceived).

Some readers might complain about Ludvik's or Kundera's sexism and cruelty. However, overall, the design of the novel allows us to witness different perspectives in a polyphonic manner. When we see the situation from the other side(s), we learn that Ludvik might equally have been the victim of a cosmic joke.

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[Both photos are stills from the 1969 film of the novel directed by Jaromil Jire拧.]

The Recognition

"The Joke" is effectively a caveat against egotism, a warning against selfishness, especially in sexual relationships. In the Communist polit-speak used against Ludvik, it's a reproach of "traces of individualism" and "intellectual tendencies", the refusal to submit to the greater good (whether of the couple or of society). However, these traces and tendencies go further than Communist society, hence the broader ambitions Kundera had for his novel.

Whatever the political environment, Kundera describes a "depression over the bleakness of our erotic horizons".

How men in particular deal with this bleakness and depression reflects in their sexual behaviour. It's too easy for men to take it out on the woman closest to them.

Ludvik comments on "the incredible human capacity for transforming reality into a likeness of desires or ideals..." He describes the women in his life as angels and goddesses. There's a lack of reality in his perspective. Inevitably, it compromises the relationship itself:

"...a man may ask anything of a woman, but unless he wishes to appear a brute, he must make it possible for her to act in harmony with her deepest self-deceptions."


So women, equally, have desires and ideals that might misguide them. For both genders, then, desire is often founded in self-deceit, if not also the deceit of others.

The Vain Pursuit

Ludvik defines women in relation to himself and his own needs. Lucie's truth is hidden from Ludvik, because his gaze is single-mindedly selfish:

"I'd always taken comfort in seeing Lucie as something abstract, a legend and a myth, but now I realised that behind the poetry of my vision hid a starkly unpoetic reality; that I didn't know her as she actually was, in and of herself. All I'd been able to perceive (in my youthful egocentricity) was those aspects of her being touching directly on me (my loneliness, my captivity, my desire for tenderness and affection); she had never been anything more to me than a function of my situation, everything she was in her own right, had escaped me entirely."

Ultimately, Lucie reveals to Ludvik and via him to all men how much of their love is mere "vain pursuit". By extension, Kundera suggests that, both in our vanity and in our pursuit, we are the brunt of our own joke.
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丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賰丕賳 賯乇丕亍丞 賲卮鬲乇賰丞 賲毓 兀氐丿賯丕卅賷 丕賱兀毓夭丕亍 賲丨賲丿 賲賰乇賲 賵 賲丨賲丿 賯丕卅丿 丕賱賱賷 亘爻鬲賮丕丿 賵 亘鬲毓賱賲 賲賳賴賲 賲賳 兀賵賱 賲丕 亘丿兀鬲 賯乇丕亍丞 賵 賮賷 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 鬲丨丿賷丿丕賸 廿爻鬲賮丕丿鬲 賵 丕鬲毓賱賲鬲 賲賳賴賲 賰鬲賷乇 賵賷賲賰賳 鬲賰賵賳 賲賳 兀丨賱賷 丕賱賯乇丕亍丕鬲 丕賱噩賲丕毓賷丞 丕賱賱賷 丕卮鬲乇賰鬲 賮賷賴丕 賲賳 賮鬲乇丞 胤賵賷賱丞馃槏

卮賰乇丕賸 賱賷賴賲 賵卮賰乇丕賸 賱賰賵賳丿賷乇丕 賵卮賰乇丕賸 賱賱賰鬲亘 丕賱丨賱賵丞 丕賱賱賷 賲賳 睾賷乇賴丕 丨賷丕鬲賳丕 兀賰賷丿 亘賷賰賵賳 賳丕賯氐賴丕 丨丕噩丕鬲 賰鬲賷乇鉂わ笍
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2,749 reviews3,160 followers
January 9, 2025

Going into this, the last Kundera novel I had left to read, and knowing what he'd been like in regards to his treatment of women in other novels, I'd put my life on it that in here somewhere there would be either the threat of rape, attempted rape, an actual rape or, at the very least, some sort of other humiliation for one of his female characters. We pretty much get the lot. I swear this guy must have been given the cold shoulder by hundreds of women in his younger days to turn out the way he did in his novels. The Joke, his first, can be seen as both a love story - well, Kundera's idea of a love story anyway, and a political farce on Czechoslovakia in the 50s and early 60s. Kundera uses four narrative voices to clever effect, including Ludvik Jahn, the loyal Communist, whose prankish Trotsky joke at beginning of the novel lands him in deep water with the Party and his university, which sees him sent off to mines as a labourer. He has love affair with a timid girl called Lucie - who we would learn later was gang raped, and sneaks off one night to meet her, but is left annoyed by her lack of wanting to be intimate. Years later, an embittered Ludvik, plans a revenge mission on his old friend, Pavel; the one who denounced him, by coldly seducing his radio commentator wife, Helena, who arrives in a provincial town to meet Ludvik as well as interview Ludvik's old friend Jaroslav, who is trying to restore to past glory days the traditional folk ritual known as The Ride of the Kings. When the scene comes around of Ludvik trying to sexual humiliate Helena, it was one of the most intolerable things Kundera has ever done. It seemed to drag on for ages for his purpose only, like he was actually enjoying it. Then comes another truly embarrassing scene when Helena, after learning of Ludvik's real reason for wanting to bed her, takes an overdose of what she thinks is aspirins when it fact it was laxatives. Rushing to try and save her life, Ludvik bursts in on her on the toilet, and lets just say that she isn't exactly welcoming. What might have seemed like a thing to laugh about, in the manner that it was all presented, became more in the way of a wince. The thing is, taking the whole narrative into account, it's actually Ludvik that comes off the worst. The joke back fired, resulting in political ruin, and Pavel wasn't even bothered that he was trying to seduce his wife so the mission failed there too, thus, as Kundera puts it, man is condemned to triviality, as the tragedy lies in the fact that the joke has deprived him of the right to tragedy. I thought Kundera was great when focusing on Czech folk culture, and I could really see an affectionate and warm heart shining through, but the constant torment and molesting of his women is just starting to bore me now. With no more novels to read though, I won't have to put myself through it again. Overall, The Joke was certainly better than the last couple I read - The Farewell Party & Identity , but it doesn't lay a glove on the utter brilliance of immortality. That for me, now having read them all, comes out on top.
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1,000 reviews
June 19, 2021
鬲卮賷賰賵爻賱賵賮丕賰賷丕 丨丕囟乇丞 亘賯賵丞 賮賷 乇賵丕賷丕鬲 賰賵賳丿賷乇丕 賮鬲乇丞 丨賰賲 丕賱丨夭亘 丕賱卮賷賵毓賷
丕賱丨乇賷丞 丕賱賮乇丿賷丞 丕賱賲賮賯賵丿丞 賮賷 馗賱 丕賱爻賱胤丞 丕賱卮賷賵毓賷丞 丕賱鬲賷 賳氐亘鬲 賳賮爻賴丕 丨賻賰賲 毓賱賶 賰賱丕賲 丕賱賳丕爻 賵兀賮毓丕賱賴賲 賵賳賵丕賷丕賴賲
賲噩乇丿 賲夭丨丞 氐睾賷乇丞 鬲賯賱亘 丨賷丕丞 賱賵丿賮賷賰 亘胤賱 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賵鬲丨賵賱賴 廿賱賶 賲購鬲賴賲
乇賵丕賷丞 鬲賲鬲夭噩 賮賷賴丕 丕賱爻賷丕爻丞 賵丕賱賲亘丕丿卅 賵丕賱賲賵爻賷賯賶 賵丕賱丨亘, 賷賳鬲賯賱 賮賷賴丕 賰賵賳丿賷乇丕 亘賷賳 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 賵丨賷丕鬲賴賲 丕賱賲鬲丿丕禺賱丞 亘爻賱丕爻丞
賵賷賰鬲亘 毓賳 丕賱鬲睾賷乇丕鬲 丕賱鬲賷 鬲胤乇兀 毓賱賶 丕賱卮禺氐賷丞 亘賲乇賵乇 丕賱夭賲賳 賵鬲睾賷乇 丕賱馗乇賵賮 賵丕賱兀賮賰丕乇
賵兀孬乇 丕賱兀匕賶 賵丕賱馗賱賲 毓賱賶 賳賮爻 丕賱丕賳爻丕賳 賵賯丿乇鬲賴 毓賱賶 丕賱氐賮丨 兀賵 丨鬲賶 丕賱賳爻賷丕賳
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433 reviews4,210 followers
April 6, 2020
Personal relationships are paramount in life. At their best they can confirm the highest ideals we have about human life. Relationships are how we learn about ourselves. How we evolve, both as individuals and communities. How we learn about the world around us. Relationships are the most accessible source of inspiration. They can bring us to our knees; they can move us close to heaven. Personal relationships are our sacred text, our scripture. Every totalitarian state seeks to undermine the power of personal relationships. The party line takes precedence over every other consideration...

Early on, Ludvik is embroiled in a sexual power play with a girl he fancies. He's irritated by her earnest piety towards a Czech national hero - a resistance fighter who was murdered by the Nazis. He writes her a postcard with a facetious remark about this man. Soon, he is on trial. A friend of his adjudicates his case, finds him guilty and he is banished from the Communist party, the university and sent for political re-education. The postcard, in his eyes, was nothing more than a joke. Kundera does a good job of dramatizing the inevitable demoralisation and nihilism that a totalitarian state bleeds out, the fatal rifts in personal relationships it brings about. But鈥�

I tire of Kundera's relentless hostility towards pop culture, motorbikes, leather jackets, youthful posturing. He just sounds like a grumpy old man full of bogus nostalgia for a reality that never existed. In this novel, he gives us what he thinks of as a better alternative: folk culture. Frankly, this element of the novel bored me silly. I also tire of his adolescent macho sexuality. I've defended him in my reviews of his later and much better novels but it's hard here. Ludvik's plan for revenging himself on the friend who tried and sentenced him is to sleep with his wife. The scene when this takes place is excruciating. I think in all his novels there's at least one scene in which a male sexually humiliates a female. Here, he goes way beyond what the plot demands in his exultant abuse of the (wholly innocent) female character. He also provides what sounds like excerpts from a self-help manual on how to seduce women which I found comically crass. Kundera the womaniser, like Kundera the cultural arbiter, is a crushing bore. He's not a good looking man, never was. You can't help wondering if the sexual passages of his novels are some sort of cathartic fantasy in which he's able to play a sexual role, both triumphant and vindictive, he was denied in real life.

I've just read Kundera snitched on someone to the communist regime which resulted in the individual spending 22 years in prison. That seals it for me - Milan Kundera gets my vote as the most unlikeable author out there. It's almost a shame he can also be a genius.
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1,102 reviews3,298 followers
October 14, 2019
There was a time when a joke could force you into exile or send you to jail!

Nowadays you can make the most outrageous claims and actually mean them. If anybody calls you out on your complete lack of truth or empathy or both, you just say:

"Joke!"

And there won't be any consequences. The right to a disgusting sense of humour seems engraved in populist politicians' minds, and their sycophants are the master interpreters of jokes just like the secret police forces in the former Communist world were the official detectors of seriousness hidden behind witty word play. I wonder which of these two bizarre world concepts, both of which I have managed to experience in my own lifetime (and I am not entirely methuselah-aged yet!), is worse for humanity?

Loss of freedom to massive control of mind and body? Loss of accountability due to Orwellian Newspeak Joker carte blanche?

I am scared, and I am not joking!
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629 reviews7,087 followers
April 9, 2015
賮賶 丨賭賵丕乇 氐丨賮賶 賯丿賷賲 爻購兀賱 賰賵賳丿賷乇丕 :

- 賴賱 睾賳賶 丕賱鬲噩乇亘丞 丕賱丨賷丕鬲賷丞 賴賵 賲丕 賷噩毓賱 乇賵丕賷丕鬲賰 丕賯乇亘 賱賱爻賷乇丞 丕賱匕丕鬲賷丞責


賮兀噩丕亘 賰賵賳丿賷乇丕: "賱賲 丕賰賳 賲鬲賵丕噩丿丕賸 賮賷 丕賷 卮禺氐賷丞 賲賳 卮禺氐賷丕鬲賷貙 賰賲丕 丕賳 卮禺氐賷丕鬲賷 賱賷爻鬲 鬲噩爻賷丿丕 賱丕賷 卮禺氐 賲賳 賱丨賲 賵丿賲. 丕賰乇賴 丕賱爻賷乇 丕賱匕丕鬲賷丞 丕賱賲賯賳毓丞貙 賵賱丕 丕丨亘 胤賷卮 丕賱賰鬲丕亘. 丕賱胤賷卮 亘丕賱賳爻亘丞 賱賷 禺胤賷卅丞 賱丕 鬲睾鬲賮乇."


丕賱丌賳貙 賵亘毓賭丿 兀賳 丕賳賴賷鬲 兀毓賲丕賱 賰賵賳丿賷乇丕 丕賱乇賵丕卅賷丞 兀賯賵賱 亘賰賱 孬賯丞 兀賳 賰賵賳丿賷賭乇丕 賰丕賳 賷賰匕亘..
賰賵賳丿賷乇丕 賷馗賴賭乇 賮賶 賰賱 卮禺氐賷丕鬲賴.. 賷胤賱 亘乇兀爻賴 賲毓 賰賱 賲賵賯賮貙 賵賷鬲乇賰 噩夭亍賸丕 賲賳賴 賮賶 賰賱 乇賵丕賷丞 賷賰鬲亘賴丕.. 丨鬲賶 亘胤賱丕鬲賴 丕賱賳爻丕亍 賷賲賳丨賴賳 噩夭亍賸丕 賲賳 丨賷丕丞 賳爻丕亍 毓卮賯賴丕 兀賵 賰乇賴賴丕..

賮賶 賲乇丕噩毓丞 乇賵丕賷丞 "賰鬲丕亘 丕賱囟丨賰 賵丕賱賳爻賷丕賳" 賰鬲亘鬲購:


"胤亘賾賯 賰賵賳丿賷乇丕 賲丕 賷賯賵賱 賮賶 丕賱丕賯鬲亘丕爻 丕賱兀賵賱 亘丨匕丕賮賷乇賴 貙 賮賰鬲亘 賰鬲丕亘賸丕 爻賷丕爻賷賸丕 毓賳 丕賱丨亘 貙 兀賵 賰鬲丕亘 丨亘賾 毓賳 丕賱爻賷丕爻丞. 賰鬲亘 賮賷賴 兀噩夭丕亍 賲賳 賷賵賲賷丕鬲賴 丕賱禺丕氐丞 貙 賵賯胤毓 賲賳 爻賷乇鬲賴 丕賱匕丕鬲賷賴 賵毓賱丕賯鬲賴 亘丕賱丨夭亘 丕賱卮賷賵毓賶 貙 賵丕噩鬲賷丕丨 丕賱乇賵爻 賱亘賵賴賷賲賷丕 貙 賵賴丕噩賲 賮賷賴 乇丐爻丕亍 丕賱鬲卮賷賰 丕賱鬲丕亘毓賷賳 賱賱丕鬲丨丕丿 丕賱爻賵賮賷鬲賶 貙 賵賴賵 賲丕 兀丿賶 賮賶 丕賱賳賴丕賷丞 廿賱賶 丕爻賯丕胤 噩賳爻賷鬲賴 丕賱鬲卮賷賰賷丞 賵胤乇丿賴 廿賱賶 賮乇賳爻丕 丨賷孬 丨氐賱 毓賱賶 丕賱噩賳爻賷丞 丕賱賮乇賳爻賷丞 賵亘丿兀 亘丕賱賰鬲丕亘丞 亘丕賱賱睾丞 丕賱賮乇賳爻賷丞 兀賷囟賸丕 ..

賷賵夭賾毓 賰賵賳丿賷乇丕 賳賮爻賴 毓賱賶 卮禺氐賷丕鬲賴 貙 賮鬲噩丿 兀賳 賰賱 卮禺氐賷丞 賯丿 丨氐賱鬲 毓賱賶 噩夭亍 賲賳賴 ; 丕賱爻賷丕爻賶 丕賱賲賳丕賮賯 賵丕賱賲丨丕賲賶 丕賱亘丕乇毓 賵賳丕丿賱丞 丕賱亘丕乇 賵丕賱賲乇兀丞 丕賱乇賷賮賷丞 賵丕賱卮丕毓乇 丕賱毓馗賷賲 賵毓丕賴乇丕鬲 丕賱賲丿賷賳丞 賵睾賷乇賴丕 .. 鬲爻鬲胤賷毓 兀賳 鬲卮賲 乇丕卅丨鬲賴 賮賶 賰賱 賴匕丕"


賵賮賶 賲乇丕噩毓丞 乇賵丕賷丞 "丕賱噩賴賱":


"賱賷爻 丕賱噩賴賱 賴賳丕 賴賵 毓丿賲 丕賱賲毓乇賮丞貙 賵廿賳賲丕 賴賵 "丕賱氐丿賲丞" ..
氐丿賲丞 丕賱毓丕卅丿賷賳 廿賱賶 兀賵胤丕賳賴賲貙 氐丿賲丞 丕賱匕賰乇賷丕鬲 丕賱賲亘鬲賵乇丞 賵丕賱氐賵乇 丕賱賲賲夭賯丞貙 氐丿賲丞 丕賱爻賳賷賳 丕賱囟丕卅毓丞 賵丕賱亘賱丿丕賳 丕賱賲賴噩賵乇丞..
氐丿賲丞 "廿賷乇賷賳丕" 賵 "噩賵夭賷賮" 丕賱毓丕卅丿賷賿賳 廿賱賶 亘賱丿丕賳賴賲 亘毓丿 "丕賱賴噩乇" ..
賱賮馗鬲賴賲 兀賵胤丕賳賴賲 賵鬲亘乇賾兀鬲 賲賳賴賲 匕賰乇賷丕鬲賴賲貙 賵賵噩丿賵丕 兀賳賮爻賴賲 毓賱賶 丨丕賮丞 丕賱賳爻賷丕賳..
賲丕匕丕 賷丨丿孬 亘毓丿 毓卮乇丕鬲 丕賱爻賳賷賳 賲賳 "丕賱賴噩乇" 責
賲丕匕丕 賱賵 賯乇乇賵丕 丕賱毓賵丿丞 賲乇丞 兀禺乇賶責
賴賱 鬲賯丕亘賱賴賲 兀賵胤丕賳賴賲 亘兀賷丕丿賺 賲賮鬲賵丨丞 兀賲 鬲賱賮馗賴賲 賰賲丕 賱賮馗鬲賴賲 賲賳 賯亘賱 責
賷噩賷亘 賰賵賳丿賷賭乇丕 毓賳 丕賱爻賭丐丕賱 ..
賷噩賷亘貙 賵賴賵 兀賮囟賱 賲賳 賷噩賷亘 毓賳 鬲爻丕丐賱賺 賰賴匕丕 ..
胤購乇賽丿 賲賳 亘賱丿賴 賱賲賳丕賴囟鬲賴 賱賱卮賷賵毓賷丞貙 賵丕賱鬲噩兀 亘賮乇賳爻丕 賵賰鬲亘 亘賱睾鬲賴丕貙 賵亘賴匕丕 賮賯丿 毓丕賷卮 賰賱 賲丕 賷氐賮貙 賵乇亘賲丕 賰丕賳 賷鬲丨丿孬 毓賳 賳賮爻賴 賴賳賭丕 .. "


兀賲丕 賴賳丕貙 賮賶 "丕賱賲夭丨丞" 賮丕賱兀賲賭乇 兀賰孬賭乇 賵囟賵丨賸丕..
鬲鬲亘賾毓 賲毓賶 丨賷丕丞 "賱賵丿賮賷賰" 亘胤賱 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞貨 丕賳囟賲 賱賱丨夭亘 丕賱卮賷賵毓賶 賵兀禺賱氐 賱賴貙 孬賲貙 賱賲夭丨丞 睾乇賷亘丞 兀爻卅 鬲賮爻賷乇賴丕貙 賵噩丿 賳賮爻賴 賲胤賭乇賵丿賸丕 賲賳 丕賱丨賭夭亘貙 賵賲丨乇賵賲賸丕 賲賳 廿賰賲丕賱 丕賱丿乇丕爻丞貙 賵賲賳亘賵匕賸丕 賲賳 氐賮賵賮 丕賱賵胤賳賷丞 廿賱賶 丕賱兀亘賭丿..
爻賳賷賳 賷賯囟賷賴丕 賮賶 賲丨丕賵賱丕鬲 賱賱毓賭賵丿丞貙 賵毓賳丿賲丕 賷兀爻 賲賳 丕賱賲丨丕賵賱丞 鬲丨賵賾賱 鬲賲丕賲賸丕.. 兀賳鬲賴噩 爻賷丕爻丞 丕賱毓丿丕亍 賵丕賱賲賯丕賵賲丞貙 丕賱毓丿丕亍 賱兀賮賰丕乇賴 丕賱兀賵賱賶貙 賵丕賱賲賯丕賵賲丞 囟丿 丨夭亘賴 丕賱爻丕亘賯..
賵賮賶 丕賱賳賴丕賷丞 賷乇賶 丕賱丨賯賷賯丞 丕賱賲乇丞.. 賱丕 賮丕卅丿丞!

賴賱 鬲乇賶 賰賱 賴匕丕 賲兀賱賵賮賸丕 責
賴賱 鬲匕賰賾乇賰 賴匕賴 丕賱兀丨丿丕孬 亘卮禺氐賺 賲丕 責
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賱賲 兀丨亘賴丕 賰孬賷乇丕

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胤乇丨 賵 鬲賵胤卅賴 卮賵禺蹖 亘賴鈥� 禺賵丿蹖鈥� 禺賵丿 蹖讴 卮賵禺蹖 丕爻鬲. 賵 鬲賳賴丕 賳賴 胤乇丨 賵 鬲賵胤卅賴鈥屫ж�. 讴賴 賮賱爻賮賴鈥屫ж� 賳蹖夭: 亘卮乇 诏乇賮鬲丕乇 丿乇 丿丕賲 卮賵禺蹖貙 丕夭 賮丕噩毓賴鈥屫й� 卮禺氐蹖 乇賳噩 賲蹖鈥屫ㄘ必� 讴賴 丕夭 亘蹖乇賵賳 趩乇賳丿 賵 禺賳丿賴鈥屫ж� 賲蹖鈥屬嗁呚й屫�. 賲賯丿賲賴 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴. 氐賮丨丕鬲 鄯-鄹 讴鬲丕亘
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丌賳賴丕 讴賴 丿乇 丕亘丿蹖鬲 夭賳丿诏蹖 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁嗀� 亘丕 丕賳丿賵賴 亘蹖诏丕賳賴鈥屫з嗀�. 賲蹖鈥屫з嗁嗀� 讴賴 夭賳丿诏蹖 丿乇 夭賲蹖賳 噩夭 丿賲蹖 賳賲蹖鈥屬矩й屫� 賵 亘賴鈥� 賴賲 倬蹖賵爻鬲賳 賯乇蹖亘鈥屫з勝堎傎堌� 丕爻鬲. 氐賮丨賴 鄄郯鄹 讴鬲丕亘
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賴賷 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 丕賱兀賵賱賶 賱賰賵賳丿賷乇丕 賵鬲噩乇亘鬲賷 丕賱禺丕賲爻丞 賲毓賴貙 賵賴賷 丕賱兀賮囟賱 亘丕賱鬲兀賰賷丿 丨鬲賶 丕賱丌賳. 乇賵丕賷丞 賲丨賰賲丞貙 賯丕爻賷丞 賵孬乇賷丞貙 丕爻鬲賲鬲毓鬲 亘賴丕 毓亘乇 賯乇丕亍丞 噩賲丕毓賷丞 亘賮禺丕賲丞 賱賷爻 賱賴丕 賲孬賷賱.

兀賯氐賳賷 賵兀賯氐賷賰
廿丨丿賶 丕賱孬賷賲丕鬲 丕賱孬丕亘鬲丞 賮賷 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賴賷 廿賱睾丕亍 丕賱丌禺乇. 賮丕賱卮賷賵毓賷 賷賳賮賷 賲賳 賷丐賲賳 亘丕賱賮乇丿丕賳賷丞貙 亘賷賳賲丕 丕賱賲丐賲賳 賷賯氐賷 丕賱賲賱丨丿貙 丕賱鬲賳賵賷乇賷 賷賲丨賵 丕賱鬲賯賱賷丿賷貙 賵丕賱鬲賯賱賷丿賷 賷乇賰賱 丕賱賲鬲丨乇乇 賮賷 賲丐禺乇鬲賴. 賳亘鬲卅爻 賰孬賷乇丕賸 賵賳丨夭賳 毓賳丿賲丕 賷賱睾賷賳丕 丕賱丌禺乇賵賳貙 睾賷乇 兀賳賳丕 賱丕 賳鬲賵丕賳賶 毓賳 丕夭丿乇丕亍 丕賱丌禺乇賷賳 賵賲毓鬲賯丿丕鬲賴賲. 鬲噩乇賷 兀丨丿丕孬 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 廿亘丕賳 丕賱丨賯亘丞 丕賱卮賷賵毓賷丞貙 亘賲丕 賮賷賴丕 毓賴丿 爻鬲丕賱賷賳 丕賱卮賲賵賱賷貙 賵爻賳乇賶 鬲兀孬賷乇 匕賱賰 毓賱賶 鬲氐乇賮丕鬲 丕賱賳丕爻 賵兀賮賰丕乇賴賲 賵毓賱丕賯丕鬲賴賲.

賲賳 兀賳鬲 丕賱丌賳責 賲賳 兀賳鬲 睾丿丕賸責
賷睾鬲乇 丕賱賰孬賷乇賵賳貙 禺丕氐丞 丕賱卮亘丕亘 賮賷 賲賯鬲亘賱 丕賱毓賲乇貙 亘兀賮賰丕乇賴賲 馗丕賳賷賳 兀賳賴賲 兀氐丕亘賵丕 賰亘丿 丕賱丨賯賷賯丞. 賵丕賳胤賱丕賯丕賸 賲賳 鬲賱賰 丕賱賲亘丕丿卅貙 賷丨丿丿 丕賱賲乇亍 氐丿丕賯丕鬲賴 賵毓丿丕賵丕鬲賴貙 賵毓賱賶 兀爻丕爻賴丕 賷噩鬲乇丨 丕賱鬲囟丨賷丕鬲 賵賷鬲丨賲賱 丕賱禺爻丕乇丕鬲. 賱丕 賳毓賱賲 廿賱丕 賯賱賷賱丕賸 兀賳賳丕 賲毓 賲囟賷 丕賱賵賯鬲 賵丕禺鬲賱丕賮 丕賱馗乇賵賮 爻鬲鬲睾賷乇 兀賮賰丕乇賳丕貙 爻鬲亘賱賶貙 賱賳 賷毓丿 賱賴丕 賲賰丕賳 賵賱丕 乇丕亘胤 賲毓 丕賱賵丕賯毓 賵丕賱兀卮禺丕氐. 賱賵 賰賳丕 賳毓賱賲... 賱賵 賰賳丕 賮賯胤 賳毓賱賲 兀賳 賱兀賮賰丕乇賳丕 鬲丕乇賷禺 氐賱丕丨賷丞貙 賱賲锟斤拷 鬲賰亘丿賳丕 鬲賱賰 丕賱禺爻丕卅乇 賵丕賯鬲乇賮賳丕 鬲賱賰 丕賱兀禺胤丕亍.

兀毓亘丕亍 丕賱賲丕囟賷
丕爻兀賱 賳賮爻賰 賵兀噩亘 亘氐丿賯: 賴賱 鬲毓賷卮 賮賷 丕賱賲丕囟賷 兀賲 賮賷 丕賱丨丕囟乇責 賴賱 賷賳賵亍 賰丕賴賱賰 亘匕賰乇賷丕鬲 丕賱賲丕囟賷 賱丿乇噩丞 兀賳賴丕 鬲丐孬乇 毓賱賶 賯乇丕乇丕鬲賰 丕賱丨丕賱賷丞責 賴賱 孬賲丞 賳夭毓丞 賱賱丕賳鬲賯丕賲 賲賳 兀丨丿 賲丕 兀賵 鬲毓賵賷囟 賱賳賮爻賰 毓賳 馗乇賮 賲毓賷賳責 賴賱 賴賳丕賰 毓賯丿丞 噩爻丿賷丞 兀賲 賳賮爻賷丞 鬲毓丕賳賷 賲賳賴丕 亘爻亘亘 丕賱賲丕囟賷 賵賱賲 鬲噩丿 賲賳賴丕 賲賳丕氐丕賸 丕賱賷賵賲責 鬲爻鬲毓乇囟 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 兀氐賳丕賮丕賸 賲賳 兀睾賱丕賱 丕賱賲丕囟賷 賵賯賷賵丿賴. 賳噩丿 兀賳 亘毓囟 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 賳噩丨 賮賷 丕賱鬲丨乇乇 賲賳賴丕 亘賷賳賲丕 馗賱 丕賱亘毓囟 賲賰亘賱丕賸 亘賴丕 廿賱賶 丕賱兀亘丿.

睾乇賷夭丞 丕賱鬲亘乇賷乇
毓賳丿賲丕 賷夭乇毓 丕亘賳 丌丿賲 匕賳亘丕賸 賮廿賳賴 賷爻賯賷賴 亘丕賱賲亘乇乇丕鬲. 賴匕丕 賷購賮賱爻賮 丕賱兀賲賵乇 賱賷噩毓賱 噩乇賷賲鬲賴 賲賳胤賯锟斤拷丞貙 賴匕丕 賷爻鬲卮賴丿 亘賰鬲丕亘 賲賯丿爻 賱賷氐賮丨 毓賳 賳賮爻賴 賵匕賱賰 賷毓賱賯 禺胤兀賴 毓賱賶 卮賲丕毓丞 丕賱丌禺乇賷賳...賷睾賵氐 賰賵賳丿賷乇丕 賮賷 賵丨賱 丕賱賳賮爻 丕賱亘卮乇賷丞 賵賷賳賯賱 賱賳丕 賳賯賱丕賸 賲亘丕卮乇丕賸 氐賵鬲賴丕 丕賱丿丕禺賱賷 丿賵賳 鬲噩賲賷賱 賵賱丕 賲賵丕乇亘丞 賱賷賰卮賮 毓賳 賲丌乇亘賴丕 丕賱禺賮賷丞貙 毓賳 丕賱乇孬丕亍 賱賱賳賮爻 賵噩賱丿 丕賱匕丕鬲 賵爻丕卅乇 丕賱兀毓乇丕囟 丕賱爻賯賷賲丞 丕賱兀禺乇賶.

丨賵丕亍 賰賲丨胤丞 毓丕亘乇丞
賳賲賵匕噩丕賳 兀賳孬賵賷丕賳 賮賷 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞貙 賵賲毓 兀賳賴賲丕 賲禺鬲賱賮鬲丕賳 賰賱 丕賱丕禺鬲賱丕賮 賲賳 丨賷孬 丕賱賲馗賴乇 賵丕賱賲乇賰夭 賵丕賱毓賲乇 賵丕賱賯丿乇丕鬲貙 廿賱丕 兀賳 賰賱賷鬲賴賲丕 賲孬賱鬲丕 賲丨胤鬲賷賳 賲丐賯鬲鬲賷賳 賱卮禺氐 兀賵 兀賰孬乇 賲賳 丕賱卮禺賵氐 丕賱匕賰賵乇賷丞 賮賷 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞. 爻賵丕亍賸 賵購噩丿 丕賱卮睾賮 賲賳 丕賱亘丿丕賷丞 兀賲 賱賵 賷賵噩丿貙 賮賮賷 賳賴丕賷丞 丕賱賲胤丕賮貙 賷丨賲賱 丕賱乇噩賱 賲鬲丕毓賴 毓賳 鬲賱賰 丕賱賵丕丨丞 丕賱鬲賷 兀乇賵鬲賴 賵兀馗賱鬲賴 賱賷鬲賵賴 賮賷 氐丨乇丕亍 噩丕賮丞 丨鬲賶 賷噩丿 賵丕丨丞 兀禺乇賶.

賲夭丨丞 賰卅賷亘丞
毓賱賶 兀賳 毓賳賵丕賳 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞貙 亘丕賱廿囟丕賮丞 廿賱賶 鬲丕乇賷禺 賰丕鬲亘賴丕 賷賵丨賷丕賳 亘兀賳 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 爻丕禺乇丞. 賱賰賳 丕賱毓賰爻 氐丨賷丨貙 賰賱 賲夭丨丞 賵乇丿鬲 賮賷 丕賱賳氐 丕賲鬲夭噩鬲 亘丕賱丿賲賵毓 賵丕賱毓乇賯 賵丕賱丿賲. 丕賱丨夭賳 賷禺賷賲 毓賱賶 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲貙 賵丕賱賯賲毓 賷噩孬賲 毓賱賶 丕賱兀賮賰丕乇貙 賵丕賱賲丌爻賷 丕賱卮禺氐賷丞 賱丕 鬲賰賮 毓賳 丕賱賵賯賵毓. 亘毓囟 丕賱賲卮丕賴丿 賲孬賷乇丞 賱賱兀毓氐丕亘 賵賯丿 鬲卮毓乇賰 亘丕賱禺夭賷 賵丕賱乇睾亘丞 賮賷 爻丿 兀匕賳賷賰 賵廿睾賲丕囟 毓賷賳賷賰.

卮禺氐賷丕鬲 賵鬲賷丕乇丕鬲
賰賱 卮禺氐賷丞 賲賳 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 鬲毓亘乇 毓賳 鬲賵噩賴 賲毓賷賳. 賲賳賴賲 賲賳 賷丐賲賳 亘丕賱丨乇賷丞 丕賱卮禺氐賷丞 賮賷 廿胤丕乇 丕賱丨夭亘貙 賵賲賳賴賲 賲賳 賷乇亘胤 亘賷賳 丕賱賲爻賷丨賷丞 賵丕賱丕卮鬲乇丕賰賷丞 賵丕賱孬丕賱孬 賷鬲賲爻賰 亘丕賱賮賱賵賰賱賵乇 賰賵爻賷賱丞 賱廿孬亘丕鬲 丕賱賴賵賷丞...爻賳噩丿 丕賱賲鬲毓氐亘 丕賱匕賷 賷亘乇卅 鬲賷丕乇賴 賲賳 賰賱 賳賯賷氐丞 丨鬲賶 賱賵 乇兀賶 丕賱噩乇丕卅賲 鬲乇鬲賰亘 乇兀賷 丕賱毓賷賳貙 賵爻賳噩丿 丕賱賲鬲爻賱賯 賵丕賱賲鬲卮丿賯 賵丕賱賳丕丿賲 賵丕賱禺丕卅賮 賵丕賱噩爻賵乇.

爻乇丿 賲丨賰賲
賷乇鬲丨賱 丕賱爻乇丿 賲丕 亘賷賳 丕賱賲丕囟賷 賵丕賱丨丕囟乇 賵賰賱 賮氐賱 鬲乇賵賷賴 卮禺氐賷丞 賲禺鬲賱賮丞 亘丕爻鬲孬賳丕亍 丕賱賮氐賱 丕賱兀禺賷乇 丕賱匕賷 噩賲毓 賮賷賴 賰賵賳丿賷乇丕 孬賱丕孬 卮禺氐賷丕鬲 亘亘乇丕毓丞 賲賳賯胤丞 丕賱賳馗賷乇. 亘丕賱賳爻亘丞 賱賷 賵噩丿鬲 丕賱賳氐 爻賱爻賱丕賸 賵賱賲 兀噩丿 賳賮爻賷 賵賱賵 賱賲乇丞 賵丕丨丿丞 賵賯丿 賮賯丿鬲 丕賱丕鬲噩丕賴丕鬲. 毓賱賶 丕賱賳賯賷囟 賲賳 匕賱賰貙 賯丿賲 丕賱兀爻賱賵亘 丕賱爻乇丿賷 賲賮丕噩丌鬲 賵兀賲爻賰 亘鬲賱丕亘賷亘賷 胤賵丕賱 丕賱賳氐 賵賱賲 賷鬲乇賰賳賷 賳賴亘丕賸 賱賱乇鬲丕亘丞 賵丕賱賲賱賱. 兀毓鬲亘 毓賱賶 丕賱丨亘賰丞 鬲賰丕鬲賮 亘毓囟 丕賱氐丿賮 亘賷賳 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 亘卮賰賱 兀禺乇噩賴 賯賱賷賱丕賸 毓賳 丕賱賵丕賯毓賷丞貙 賱賰賳賳賷 丕爻鬲胤毓鬲 賴囟賲 鬲賱賰 丕賱賲氐丕丿賮丕鬲 亘賲爻丕毓丿丞 賳賯丕胤 丕賱賯賵丞 丕賱兀禺乇賶 丕賱鬲賷 鬲賲賷夭鬲 亘賴丕 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞.

賱丕 兀噩賲賱 賲賳 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 廿賱丕 賳賯丕卮賴丕 賲毓 丕賱氐丿賷賯賷賳 賲丨賲丿 賲賰乇賲 賵亘丕賰賷賳丕賲. 鬲丕乇丞 賳賯賵賱 丕賱卮賷亍 匕丕鬲賴 亘賰賱賲丕鬲 賲禺鬲賱賮丞 賵鬲丕乇丞 賷丿賴卮 兀丨丿賳丕 丕賱丌禺乇賷賳 亘賳賯胤丞 賱賲 賷鬲賱賮鬲丕 廿賱賷賴丕. 鬲噩乇亘丞 禺賷丕賱賷丞 丕賱賲匕丕賯貙 賲孬賱 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞貙 賱賰賳賴丕 賱丨爻賳 丕賱丨馗 鬲丨賯賯鬲 毓賱賶 兀乇囟 丕賱賵丕賯毓.
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"she had been caught stealing flowers in a cemetery."

You know the theory which speculates that married men are way funnier than unmarried one because they have got the punchline?

The above joke is a test of how satisfied men are from their marriages and must never be made in presence of wives, as some husbands have imprudence to laugh on it. But that is the thing about jokes. You don鈥檛 鈥榤ake鈥� something funny, funny is already in air 鈥� in form of unhappy husbands (it won鈥檛 be funny to kids who know little about marriage), someone just discovers a way to poke at it.

Almost all humor is invoked by the fact that we are almost always trying hard to put up an act in one way or other; when something happens which reminds us of the reason we are putting the act, laughter becomes one of many possible responses. A non-vegetarian joke get you at sexual impulses that you won鈥檛 tell others about, the motion fails 鈥� people slipping, falling down etc are funny to people who are themselves most afraid of looking silly, it is people themselves spending time on their own appearances (and thus always with heavy makeup on) that make fun of how others look, the people who get George Carlin鈥檚 humor do so because they are themselves putting up happily with a people that they don鈥檛 think are ideal. I鈥檓 pretty sure some big philosopher gave this theory or something similar, I can鈥檛 recall who.

Now the thing is biggest acts humanity puts up with are five 鈥� nationalism, religion, political belief systems, property, and marriage. And they all prompt jokes both the good kind and the bad kind. In fact, anything which can be called an 鈥榠nstitution鈥� will prompt a joke because all institutions make assumptions as to how you should perceive reality and how you should behave. Religious organizations will have you believe how God created the world, political ones will have you believe how their own values are best etc. Even elementary schools 鈥� brush your teeth daily, take bath daily etc. what is that about? I don鈥檛 bath for months and I鈥檓 doing just fine.

Don鈥檛 get me wrong, I鈥檓 not saying one should do away with institutions but just that they kill individuality which is where hope for humanity lies 鈥� just look at the idea that requirements of 30 odd different students can be met in a single class by a single teacher at the same time! Personally, I believe, institutions should rather be like music instruments 鈥� with different kind of notes joining together to create music, for now, they are more like trying to make all buttons create same sound. Some of the members of the institution might actually believe in its one-size-fits-all value system while others are only putting up an act. Thus individuals are prompted to put an act - and thus leaving opportunities of humor.

It goes without saying that people with power over or interests in institutions don鈥檛 like humor. Remember that Queen Victoria鈥檚 鈥榳e are not amused鈥�? Of course, you aren鈥檛 dear, it breaks the whole act. It is like emperor鈥檚 new clothes, they don't like reality.

"Now I understood why the king's face must be veiled! Not that he should not be seen, but that he should not see!"

And humor is the best way to point out the truth. If rightly done, it is the second most strongest of arguments 鈥� next only to silence.

"All I'm trying to say is that no great movement designed to change the world can bear sarcasm or mockery, because they are a rust that corrodes all it touches."

Soviet Socialism (which made 'revolution' into an institution) was no different from all this, only more so 鈥� telling people what to say and what to feel. Our protagonist is trying to pretend that he is a good socialist, but he senses the humor in air. Young as he was, it was only a matter of time before he ended up joking about it. The rulers obviously weren鈥檛 amused and so he is sentenced hard labor.

"And I was horrified at the thought that things conceived in error are just as real as things conceived with good reason and of necessity."

Of course, the ones who punished him were themselves putting up an act:

"They stood between life and death. They weren't petty. If they had read my postcard, they might have laughed."

And:

"I could see nothing but actors, their faces covered by masks of cretinous virility and arrogant brutishness; I found no extenuation in the thought that the masks hid another (more human) face, since the real horror seemed to lie in the fact that the faces beneath the masks were fiercely devoted to the inhumanity and coarseness of the masks."

The biggest comedian in the story though is fate who makes a joke of several people in the book thus providing a common theme to all stories.

This is a lot more than a political novel. Kundera manages to create parallels in personal and political lives of characters. I especially liked narrator's love story at Labour camp. I really liked Lucie's story.

"we kissed through a gap in the barbed wire."

A bit off the subject, but this is partially why I don't like RSS and BJP with their 'Hindu way of life'. I don't like the idea of anyone forcing any kind of lifestyle on anyone. Not they aren't full of absurdities. They have somehow convinced millions of people that in a country where millions of children are undernourished, women鈥檚 rights are screwed, students are committing suicide; we must not forget our priorities and save cows first. Now try making a joke about that! It is beyond humor, right? Gayen Hamari mata hai, aaghe kuch nahia aata hai. (Cow is our mama, know nothing more than that). You know what I don鈥檛 understand? They never seem to care about bull papas. I mean, do you know how screwed the sex ratios of cattle are is? Even the worst of bull papas can have a harem. Why do they don鈥檛 cry about that. Is it father issues or what? I mean holy cow that is sexist man! This can go on and on ... But on some other day.

Quotes:

"it's not your enemies who condemn you to solitude, it's your friends"

"When it is postponed, vengeance is transformed into something deceptive, into a personal religion, into a myth that recedes day by day from the people involved, who remain the same in the myth though in reality (the walkway is in constant motion) they long ago became different people."

"I merely squeezed the bottle in my palm and said to myself I'm holding my death in my hand, and I was enthralled by so much opportunity, it was like going step by step to an abyss, not to jump into it, just to look down."

"Because being brave in solitude, without witnesses, without the reward of others' approbation, face to face with himself, that took great pride and strength."

"If we looked back, we'd end up like Lot's wife."

"dog's yelp can't reach heaven."

"it occurred to me that when we were buying clothes in the summer we had forgotten that summer would end and cold weather come."
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Thorns Thou Sow in the Garden of the Soul

I was surprisingly impressed with the depth, accessibility and enjoyability of this novel. The novel, published in 1967, apparently played a role in the 1968 Prague Spring of reforms and protests aimed at the stifling effects of Communism, crushed in the summer by invading forces from the Soviet Union.

The novel begins in early 1950s Czechoslovakia, with Ludvik Jahn, a university student with a great sense of humor and a strong supporter of the Communist regime after WW II. Attempting to show his girlfriend a bit of charm and a sense of humor over the summer when they are on break from classes, he wrote in a postcard to her: "Optimism is the opium of mankind! A healthy spirit stinks of stupidity! Long live Trotsky!" The party-liners, with zero sense of humor, did not get The Joke and expelled him from the "party" and the university, and forced him into a dissident鈥檚 re-education by means of two years hard labor in the mines.

Although he eventually gains decent success in his scientific profession, he harbors a grudge against party members who were responsible for his fall from grace. When he sees an opportunity to exact revenge on Zemanik who led the charge against him, Ludvik seduces Zemanik's wife and the joke may be on him, with the wife a "civilian" casualty.

I love the structure of this, Kundera's first novel, with three narrators. I'm not a big fan of some of his later metafictional ploys, as in , with his carrying the reader through his writing thought processes about the possibilities as he becomes a part of the novel as "author," not just narrator, which ruins my ability to temporarily suspend disbelief.

For me, this novel was outstanding at revealing the truth of the human condition that the "redressibility" of wrongs against us is generally impossible, and the others, including the perpetrator of the wrong, will have forgotten the misdeed anyway by the time you think you've gotten to the point of revenge. Thus one carries the poison of resentment around, as Oscar Wilde put it, as an "adder in one's breast" to "rise up every night to sow thorns in the garden of one's soul."

For this and other reasons, forgiveness is one major key in life's symphony of peace and joy. "...[T]o live in a world in which no one is forgiven, where all are irredeemable, is the same as living in hell." The Joke
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丕賵賱蹖賳 乇賲丕賳蹖 亘賵丿 讴賴 丕夭 讴賵賳丿乇丕 賲蹖 禺賵賳丿賲. 亘毓丿丕賸 讴爻蹖 亘賴賲 诏賮鬲 亘賴鬲乇蹖賳 乇賲丕賳卮 "賲賴賲丕賳蹖 禺丿丕丨丕賮馗蹖"賭賴貙 賵賱蹖 丕蹖賳 賴賲 亘丿 賳亘賵丿.

亘毓丿 賳賵卮鬲: 亘毓丿 丕夭 丕蹖賳貙 丿賵 乇賲丕賳 丿蹖诏賴 丕夭卮 禺賵賳丿賲 ( 賵 ). 亘蹖賳 丕蹖賳 爻賴 乇賲丕賳蹖 讴賴 丕夭卮 禺賵賳丿賲貙 亘丕乇 賴爻鬲蹖 亘賴 賳馗乇賲 亘賴鬲乇蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘卮 亘賵丿.

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乇丕賵蹖 噩丕蹖蹖 賲蹖诏賴:
賴賲乇賳诏 噩賲丕毓鬲 賳亘賵丿賳 诏賳丕賴 賲賳 亘賵丿. 氐賱賷亘 賲賳 亘賵丿 賰賴 亘丕賷丿 亘乇 丿賵卮 賲賶 賰卮賷丿賲.

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I like Kundra because he doesn鈥檛 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 nabouring tables, look at the peddlers at side walk, or a passing tramvay, 鈥� as life is flowing around, 鈥�.

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丨丕賱 賱賵丿賵蹖讴 亘丕夭诏卮鬲賴.. 賵賱蹖 賵噩賵丿卮 睾乇賯賽 丕賳鬲賯丕賲貙 丿卮賲賳蹖 賵 讴蹖賳賴 丕爻鬲.. 鬲賳賴丕 丿賵爻鬲蹖 讴賴 賱賵丿賵蹖讴 讴賲鬲乇 亘賴 丕賵 丕丨爻丕爻賽 丿卮賲賳蹖 丿丕乇丿貙 芦蹖丕乇賵爻賱丕賵禄 丿賵爻鬲賽 賵蹖賵賱賳 夭賳賽 丕賵爻鬲... 賱賵丿賵蹖讴 丿乇 賲爻丕賮乇禺丕賳賴貙 丕鬲丕賯蹖 丕噩丕乇賴 賲蹖讴賳丿.. 賵賱蹖 賳夭丿賽 蹖讴蹖 丕夭 丿賵爻鬲丕賳卮 亘賴 賳丕賲 芦讴賵爻鬲讴丕禄 乇賮鬲賴 賵 丕夭 丕賵 丿乇禺賵丕爻鬲 賲蹖讴賳丿 鬲丕 賲賳夭賱卮 乇丕 亘乇丕蹖賽 蹖讴 乇賵夭 亘賴 丕賵 賯乇囟 亘丿賴丿 鬲丕 丕賵 亘鬲賵丕賳丿 蹖讴蹖 丕夭 丿賵爻鬲丕賳卮 乇丕 亘乇丕蹖賽 爻讴爻 亘賴 丌賳噩丕 亘蹖丕賵乇丿... 賵賱蹖 丕蹖賳 丿賵爻鬲 讴蹖爻鬲責責責 丕蹖賳 丿賵爻鬲貙 禺亘乇賳诏丕乇賽 乇丕丿蹖賵 倬乇丕诏貙 夭賳蹖 爻丕丿賴 亘賴 賳丕賲賽 芦賴賱賳丕禄 賲蹖亘丕卮丿 讴賴 亘丕 賱賵丿賵蹖讴 丌卮賳丕 卮丿賴 丕爻鬲.. 丌賳賴賲 蹖讴 賳賵毓 丌卮賳丕蹖蹖賽 賲購亘賴賲貙 亘蹖 丌賳讴賴 丕夭 賳賯卮踿 丕賳鬲賯丕賲賽 賱賵丿賵蹖讴 丌诏丕賴 亘丕卮丿.. 賴賱賳丕 賴賲爻乇賽 芦倬丕賵賱 夭賲丕賳讴禄 賲蹖亘丕卮丿... 乇賮蹖賯 夭賲丕賳讴貙 蹖讴蹖 丕夭 賴賲丕賳 丿賵爻鬲丕賳賽 丨夭亘蹖 亘賵丿賴 丕爻鬲 讴賴 丿爻鬲賵乇賽 丕禺乇丕噩 賵 丿丕丿诏丕賴蹖賽 賱賵丿賵蹖讴 乇丕 氐丕丿乇 賳賲賵丿... 丨丕賱 賱賵丿賵蹖讴 亘乇丕蹖賽 丕賳鬲賯丕賲 丕夭 夭賲丕賳讴貙 賵丕乇丿賽 夭賳丿诏蹖賽 賴賱賳丕 卮丿賴 賵 亘賴 丿乇賵睾 亘賴 丕賵 丕馗賴丕乇賽 毓賱丕賯賴 賲蹖讴賳丿貙 鬲丕 亘丕 賴賲禺賵丕亘蹖 亘丕 丕蹖賳 夭賳賽 亘蹖趩丕乇賴貙 丕賳鬲賯丕賲卮 乇丕 丕夭 丿卮賲賳卮 亘诏蹖乇丿... 丕賱亘鬲賴 賴賱賳丕 賳蹖夭 亘丕 丕丨爻丕爻丕鬲賽 倬爻乇蹖 19 爻丕賱賴 亘丕夭蹖 賲蹖讴賳丿.. 噩賵丕賳蹖 讴賴 氐丿丕亘乇丿丕乇賽 賴賱賳丕 丕爻鬲 賵 丕賵 乇丕 賵丕賯毓丕賸 丿賵爻鬲 丿丕乇丿... 賵賱蹖 賴賱賳丕 賳爻亘鬲 亘賴 丕賵 亘蹖 鬲賮丕賵鬲 丕爻鬲
讴蹖賳賴 賵 丕賳鬲賯丕賲賽 賱賵丿賵蹖讴 亘賴 讴噩丕 賲蹖 丕賳噩丕賲丿責責 丌蹖丕 丕賵 賲蹖鬲賵丕賳丿 丕賳鬲賯丕賲 亘诏蹖乇丿 賵 蹖丕 賮賯胤 丕賳爻丕賳蹖 亘蹖诏賳丕賴 亘丕蹖丿 鬲賯丕氐 倬爻 丿賴丿!! 賱賵丿賵蹖讴 賯乇丕乇 丕爻鬲 亘丕 丕蹖賳 讴蹖賳賴 賵 丿卮賲賳蹖賽 丿乇賵賳蹖貙 趩胤賵乇 亘賴 夭賳丿诏蹖 丕丿丕賲賴 丿賴丿責責 爻乇賳賵卮鬲賽 賴賱賳丕 丌賳 夭賳賽 賮乇蹖亘 禺賵乇丿賴 趩賴 賲蹖卮賵丿責 ... 毓夭蹖夭丕賳賲貙 亘賴鬲乇 丕爻鬲 禺賵丿鬲丕賳 丕蹖賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 乇丕 禺賵丕賳丿賴 賵 丕夭 爻乇丕賳噩丕賲賽 丌賳 丌诏丕賴 卮賵蹖丿
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賲丕 诏匕丕卮鬲賴 亘賵丿蹖賲 讴賴 鬲丕乇蹖禺 賮乇蹖亘賲丕賳 亘丿賴丿貙 丕夭 賮讴乇賽 丕蹖賳讴賴 亘賴 倬卮鬲賽 丕爻亘 鬲丕乇蹖禺 倬乇蹖丿賴 丕蹖賲 賵 丌賳 乇丕 丿乇 夭蹖乇賽 倬丕賴丕蹖賲丕賳 丕丨爻丕爻 賲蹖讴賳蹖賲貙 爻乇賲爻鬲 亘賵丿蹖賲... 丕诏乇趩賴 丿乇 亘蹖卮鬲乇賽 賲賵丕乇丿 賳鬲蹖噩賴 卮賴賵鬲賽 夭卮鬲蹖 賳爻亘鬲 亘賴 賯丿乇鬲 亘賵丿... 亘丕夭賴賲 蹖讴 鬲賵賴賲賽 丌乇賲丕賳禺賵丕賴丕賳賴 亘丕賯蹖 賲丕賳丿 賵 丌賳 丕蹖賳 亘賵丿 讴賴 賲丕 丕賳爻丕賳賴丕蹖蹖 賴爻鬲蹖賲 讴賴 毓氐乇賽 噩丿蹖丿蹖 乇丕 丌睾丕夭 賲蹖讴賳蹖賲貙 毓氐乇蹖 讴賴 丿乇 丌賳 丕賳爻丕賳 丿蹖诏乇 亘蹖乇賵賳 丕夭 鬲丕乇蹖禺貙 賯乇丕乇 賳禺賵丕賴丿 丿丕卮鬲.. 丿蹖诏乇 夭蹖乇賽 倬丕卮賳踿 丌賳 禺購乇丿 賳禺賵丕賴丿 卮丿.. 亘賱讴賴 禺賵丿 丌賳 乇丕 賲蹖爻丕夭丿 賵 丕丿丕乇賴 丕卮 賲蹖讴賳丿
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賴乇 賲乇丿蹖 丿乇 賵噩賵丿卮 蹖讴 乇诏踿 禺賵丿禺賵丕賴蹖 丿丕乇丿.. 丕蹖賳 賵馗蹖賮踿 夭賳 丕爻鬲 讴賴 丕夭 禺賵丿 賵 丕夭 賲兀賲賵乇蹖鬲賽 禺賵蹖卮 亘賴 毓賳賵丕賳賽 蹖讴 夭賳貙 丿賮丕毓 讴賳丿
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丕夭 賳馗乇賽 蹖讴 胤乇賮丿丕乇賽 芦鬲乇賵鬲爻讴蹖禄貙 禺賵卮亘蹖賳蹖 丕蹖蹖 讴賴 爻賵爻蹖丕賱蹖爻賲 乇丕 亘賳丕 賲蹖讴賳丿貙 賴乇诏夭 賳賲蹖鬲賵丕賳丿 趩蹖夭蹖 亘蹖卮 丕夭 丕賮蹖賵賳 亘丕卮丿
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丕賲蹖丿賵丕乇賲 丕蹖賳 乇蹖賵蹖賵貙 丿乇 噩賴鬲賽 丌卮賳丕蹖蹖 亘丕 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘貙 讴丕賮蹖 賵 賲賮蹖丿 亘賵丿賴 亘丕卮賴
芦倬蹖乇賵夭 亘丕卮蹖丿 賵 丕蹖乇丕賳蹖禄
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August 13, 2020
"位苇谓蔚 未喂伪蠁慰蟻伪 纬喂伪 蟿慰谓 魏蔚蟻伪蠀谓慰尾慰位慰 苇蟻蠅蟿伪, 尉苇蟻蠅 蟺慰位蠉 魏伪位维 蠈蟿喂 慰 苇蟻蠅蟿伪蟼 苇蠂蔚喂 蟿畏谓 蟿维蟽畏 谓伪 未畏渭喂慰蠀蟻纬蔚委 苇谓伪 渭蠉胃慰 纬蠉蟻蠅 伪蟺 蟿慰谓 蔚伪蠀蟿蠈 蟿慰蠀, 谓伪 渭蠀胃慰蟺慰喂蔚喂 蔚魏 蟿蠅谓 蠀蟽蟿苇蟻蠅谓 蟿慰 尉蔚魏委谓畏渭伪 蟿慰蠀.纬喂伪蠀蟿蠈 魏伪喂 未蔚 胃伪 喂蟽蠂蠀蟻喂味慰渭慰蠀谓 蟺蠅蟼 萎蟿伪谓 苇蟻蠅蟿伪蟼 伪蟺'蟿畏谓 伪蟻蠂萎, 位蔚喂蟿慰蠉蟻纬畏蟽蔚 蠈渭蠅蟼 蟺蟻伪纬渭伪蟿喂魏维 魏维蟿喂 蟽伪谓 未喂慰蟻伪蟿喂魏慰蟿畏蟿伪:魏伪蟿维位伪尾伪, 苇谓喂蠅蟽伪, 蔚委未伪 伪渭苇蟽蠅蟼, 未喂伪渭喂伪蟼, 蟿畏谓 慰蠀蟽委伪 蟿畏蟼 螞慰蠀蟿蟽委伪蟼,萎 - 伪魏蟻喂尾苇蟽蟿蔚蟻伪-伪蠀蟿蠈 蟺慰蠀 苇纬喂谓蔚 纬喂伪 渭苇谓伪 蟽蟿畏谓 蟺慰蟻蔚委伪 畏 螞慰蠀蟿蟽委伪:畏 位慰蠀蟿蟽委伪 渭慰蠀 蟺伪蟻慰蠀蟽委伪蟽蔚 畏 委未喂伪 蟿慰谓 蔚伪蠀蟿蠈 蟿畏蟼, 苇蟿蟽喂 蠈蟺蠅蟼 蟺伪蟻慰蠀蟽喂维味蔚蟿伪喂 畏 蔚尉'伪蟺慰魏伪位蠀蠄蔚蠅蟼 伪位萎胃蔚喂伪. "

螣 蟺蟻蠅蟿伪纬蠅谓喂蟽蟿萎蟼 蟿畏蟼 喂蟽蟿慰蟻委伪蟼 渭伪蟼 纬蟻维蠁蔚喂 苇谓伪 伪胃蠋慰 蟽畏渭蔚委蠅渭伪 蟽蔚 渭喂伪 蠁委位畏 蟿慰蠀 蟺慰蠀 蟺蟻慰慰蟻委味蔚蟿伪喂 蠅蟼 魏维蟿喂 伪谓伪位伪蠁蟻慰, 蠅蟼 苇谓伪 伪蟽蟿蔚委慰.. "螣 慰蟺蟿喂渭喂蟽渭慰蟼 蔚委谓伪喂 蟿慰 慰蟺喂慰 蟿慰蠀 位伪慰蠉. 韦慰 蠀纬喂苇蟼 蟺谓蔚蠉渭伪 尾蟻蠅渭维蔚喂 尾位伪魏蔚喂伪. 螙畏蟿蠋 慰 韦蟻蠈蟿蟽魏喂.". 危蠉谓蟿慰渭伪 蠈渭蠅蟼 胃伪 魏伪蟿伪位维尾蔚喂 蟺蠅蟼 蟽蟿畏谓 蔚蟺慰蠂萎 蟺慰蠀 味蔚喂, 蠅蟼 渭苇位慰蟼 蟿慰蠀 螝蠈渭渭伪蟿慰蟼 魏伪喂 渭蔚 蟿畏谓 蟽慰尾伪蟻慰蠁伪谓喂伪 蟺慰蠀 蠂伪蟻伪魏蟿畏蟻委味蔚喂 蟺维谓蟿伪 蟿畏谓 蟺慰位喂蟿喂魏萎, 蟿苇蟿慰喂慰蠀 蔚委未慰蠀蟼 伪蟽蟿蔚委伪 未蔚 纬委谓慰谓蟿伪喂 慰蠉蟿蔚 伪谓蟿喂位畏蟺蟿维 慰蠉蟿蔚 未蔚魏蟿维. 螆蟿蟽喂 尉蔚魏喂谓维 苇谓伪 谓蟿蠈渭喂谓慰 蔚尉蔚位委尉蔚蠅谓 伪蟺蠈 蟿慰谓 委未喂慰, 渭蔚 蟿畏 未喂伪纬蟻伪蠁萎 蟿慰蠀 伪蟺蠈 蟿慰 螝蠈渭渭伪 魏伪喂 蟿畏 蟽蠂慰位萎 蟿慰蠀, 蟿畏谓 蔚蟺喂蟽蟿蟻维蟿蔚蠀蟽畏 蟿慰蠀 魏伪喂 渭蔚 蟿畏 渭苇胃慰未慰 蟿蠅谓 "魏蠀渭伪蟿喂蟽渭蠅谓", 慰喂 蔚尉蔚位委尉蔚喂蟼 蔚蟺畏蟻蔚维味慰蠀谓 蟺慰位位维 维位位伪 维蟿慰渭伪 蟺慰蠀 蟺位畏蟻蠋谓慰蠀谓 伪蠀蟿蠈 蟿慰 伪蟽蟿蔚委慰 蟿慰蠀 螞慰蠉谓蟿尾喂蠂...
螣 螝慰蠉谓蟿蔚蟻伪 蔚委谓伪喂 魏慰蟻蠀蠁伪委慰蟼 蟽蟿畏谓 蟽维蟿喂蟻伪 蟿畏蟼 蟺慰位喂蟿喂魏萎蟼 魏伪喂 伪蠀蟿蠈 蔚未蠋 委蟽蠅蟼 蔚委谓伪喂 蠈谓蟿蠅蟼 蟿慰 蟺喂慰 伪蟽蟿蔚委慰 伪蟺蠈 蟿伪 尾喂尾位委伪 蟿慰蠀, 伪蠁慰蠉 蟺蟻伪纬渭伪蟿喂魏维 魏维蟺慰喂伪 蔚蠀蟿蟻维蟺蔚位伪 渭蔚 苇魏伪谓伪谓 谓伪 纬蔚位维蟽蠅 渭苇蠂蟻喂 未伪魏蟻蠉蠅谓. 螁锟斤拷位蠅蟽蟿蔚 蟽蔚 蠈位畏 蟿慰蠀 蟿畏 尾喂尾位喂慰纬蟻伪蠁委伪 慰 螝慰蠉谓蟿蔚蟻伪 胃苇蟿蔚喂 伪魏蟻喂尾蠋蟼 伪蠀蟿蠈 蟿慰 未委位畏渭渭伪 蟽蟿慰谓 蔚伪蠀蟿蠈 蟿慰蠀 魏伪喂 蟿慰谓 伪谓伪纬谓蠋蟽蟿畏 : 畏 味蠅萎 蟿蔚位喂魏维 伪尉委味蔚喂 谓伪 蟿畏谓 蟺伪委蟻谓慰蠀渭蔚 蟽蟿伪 蟽慰尾伪蟻维, 畏 蔚委谓伪喂 苇谓伪 伪蟿蔚位蔚委蠅蟿慰 伪蟽蟿蔚喂慰? 螛蔚蠅蟻蠋 蟺蠅蟼 渭苇蟽伪 伪蟺蠈 蟿伪 纬蟻伪蠁蠈渭蔚谓伪 蟿慰蠀 慰 螝慰蠉谓蟿蔚蟻伪 魏伪蟿伪位萎纬蔚喂 蟺蠅蟼 渭蠈谓慰 伪谓 伪谓蟿喂位畏蠁胃蔚委 魏维谓蔚喂蟼 蟿畏谓 蔚位伪蠁蟻蠈蟿畏蟿伪 蟿畏蟼 味蠅萎蟼 渭蟺慰蟻蔚喂 谓伪 蟺蟻慰蠂蠅蟻萎蟽蔚喂 魏伪喂 谓伪 蟿畏谓 伪谓蟿蔚尉蔚喂, 魏伪胃蠋蟼 蠈蟽慰喂听 蔚渭渭苇谓慰蠀谓 蟽蟿畏 蟽慰尾伪蟻慰蠁伪谓喂伪 魏伪喂 蟺蔚蟻谓慰蠀谓 蟿畏 味蠅萎 蟿慰蠀蟼 伪蟺慰蠁伪蟽喂蟽渭蔚谓慰喂 谓伪 蟺伪委蟻谓慰蠀谓 蟿伪 蟺维谓蟿伪 蟿慰喂蟼 渭蔚蟿蟻畏蟿慰委蟼 魏伪喂 谓伪 蔚魏未喂魏慰蠉谓蟿伪喂, 蟽蠉谓蟿慰渭伪 魏伪蟿伪位萎纬慰蠀谓 蟽蟿慰 蟽蠀渭蟺苇蟻伪蟽渭伪 蠈蟿喂 蠈位伪 伪蠀蟿维 畏蟿伪谓 苇谓伪 魏伪魏蠈纬慰蠀蟽蟿慰 伪蟽蟿蔚委慰..
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June 21, 2019
螣 螠委位伪谓 螝慰蠉谓蟿蔚蟻伪 未蔚谓 伪谓萎魏蔚喂 伪魏蟻喂尾蠋蟼 蟽蟿慰蠀蟼 伪纬伪蟺畏渭苇谓慰蠀蟼 渭慰蠀 蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁蔚委蟼. 螤蔚蟻喂蟽蟽蠈蟿蔚蟻慰 胃伪 苇位蔚纬伪 蠈蟿喂 蟿慰谓 蟽苇尾慰渭伪喂 纬喂伪 蟿慰 蟿伪位苇谓蟿慰 蟿慰蠀 魏伪喂 纬喂伪 蟿伪 胃苇渭伪蟿伪 渭蔚 蟿伪 慰蟺慰委伪 蔚蟺喂位苇纬蔚喂 谓伪 魏伪蟿伪蟺喂维谓蔚蟿伪喂 蟽蟿伪 尾喂尾位委伪 蟿慰蠀. 螚 螒尾维蟽蟿伪蠂蟿畏 螘位伪蠁蟻蠈蟿畏蟿伪 尾苇尾伪喂伪 伪谓萎魏蔚喂 尉蔚魏维胃伪蟻伪 蟽蟿伪 伪纬伪蟺畏渭苇谓伪 渭慰蠀 尾喂尾位委伪 渭慰蠀 纬喂伪蟿委 未喂伪尾维蟽蟿畏魏蔚 位委纬慰 渭蔚蟿维 蟿畏谓 蔚蠁畏尾蔚委伪 魏伪喂 渭蔚 蟽畏渭维未蔚蠄蔚 渭蔚 蟿蟻蠈蟺慰 渭慰谓伪未喂魏蠈.

韦慰 螒蟽蟿蔚委慰 魏伪蟿维蠁蔚蟻蔚 魏伪喂 伪蠀蟿蠈 谓伪 蠂蟿蠀蟺萎蟽蔚喂 魏维蟺慰喂蔚蟼 蔚蠀伪委蟽胃畏蟿蔚蟼 蠂慰蟻未苇蟼 蠂蠅蟻委蟼 谓伪 蔚委谓伪喂 蟿畏蟼 蟺伪蟻慰蠉蟽畏蟼 慰喂 蟺蟻慰蟽蠅蟺喂魏苇蟼 位蔚蟺蟿慰渭苇蟻蔚喂蔚蟼.

螒谓 魏蟻伪蟿萎蟽慰蠀渭蔚 渭委伪 伪蟺蠈蟽蟿伪蟽畏 伪蟺蠈 蟿畏谓 味蠅萎 渭伪蟼 胃伪 未慰蠉渭蔚 蔚蠉魏慰位伪 蠈蟿喂 蟺慰位位维 魏伪喂 魏慰渭尾喂魏维 胃苇渭伪蟿伪 蟺蟻慰苇魏蠀蠄伪谓 萎 魏伪蟿苇位畏尉伪谓 蟽蔚 苇谓伪 伪蟽蟿蔚委慰. 韦慰 伪蟽蟿蔚委慰 尾苇尾伪喂伪 蠈蟺蠅蟼 蟿慰 蔚谓谓慰蔚委 慰 蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁苇伪蟼 渭蟺慰蟻蔚委 谓伪 蟺维蟻蔚喂 蟺慰位位苇蟼 渭慰蟻蠁苇蟼. 螒蠀蟿萎 蟿畏蟼 蔚喂蟻蠅谓蔚委伪蟼, 蟿畏蟼 蟿蟻伪纬喂魏萎蟼 蔚喂蟻蠅谓蔚委伪蟼, 蟿畏蟼 蟽蠉渭蟺蟿蠅蟽畏蟼, 蟿慰蠀 伪蟽萎渭伪谓蟿慰蠀 伪蟽蟿蔚委慰蠀 魏伪喂 蟿蠅谓 蟿蠀蠂伪委蠅谓 纬蔚纬慰谓蠈蟿蠅谓.

螤慰位位苇蟼 蠁慰蟻苇蟼 尾苇尾伪喂伪 蟿伪 螒蟽蟿蔚委伪 魏伪蟿伪位萎纬慰蠀谓 谓伪 蟺慰谓维谓蔚 纬喂伪蟿委 纬委谓慰谓蟿伪喂 蟺喂魏蟻苇蟼 蟽蠀谓蔚喂未畏蟿慰蟺慰喂萎蟽蔚喂蟼 渭喂伪蟼 味蠅萎蟼 蟺慰蠀 魏维蟺慰蟿蔚 蟽蟿畏蟻委蠂胃畏魏蔚 蟽蟿伪 喂未伪谓喂魏维, 渭蔚蟿维 蟿伪 喂未伪谓喂魏维 纬魏蟻蔚渭委蟽蟿畏魏伪谓, 渭蔚蟿维 蔚渭蔚委蟼 纬委谓伪渭蔚 蟽魏位畏蟻蠈蟿蔚蟻慰喂 纬喂伪 谓伪 蔚蟺喂尾喂蠋蟽慰蠀渭蔚, 伪谓伪味畏蟿萎蟽伪渭蔚 蔚魏未委魏畏蟽畏, 位蠉蟿蟻蠅蟽畏 魏伪喂 魏维蟺慰蠀 蔚魏蔚委 蠂维蟽伪渭蔚 慰, 蟿喂 魏慰谓蟿喂谓蠈蟿蔚蟻慰 蔚委蠂伪渭蔚 蟽蔚 伪胃蠅蠈蟿畏蟿伪.

螖蔚谓 伪魏慰蠉纬蔚蟿伪喂 魏伪喂 蟿蠈蟽慰 螒蟽蟿蔚委慰 伪位位维 魏维蟺慰喂伪 蟽蟿喂纬渭萎 蠈位慰喂 未喂伪谓蠉慰蠀渭蔚 伪蠀蟿萎 蟿畏 未喂伪未蟻慰渭萎 魏伪喂 魏伪位蠈 蔚委谓伪喂 谓伪 蠀蟺维蟻蠂慰蠀谓 尾喂尾位委伪 蟽伪谓 伪蠀蟿蠈 蟺慰蠀 渭伪蟼 苇蠂慰蠀谓 蟺蟻慰蔚蟿慰喂渭维蟽蔚喂 蠈蟽慰 纬委谓蔚蟿伪喂.

螒尉委味蔚喂 谓伪 未喂伪尾伪蟽蟿蔚委, 魏蠀蟻委蠅蟼 纬喂伪 蠈蟽伪 位苇蔚喂 伪谓维渭蔚蟽伪 蟽蟿喂蟼 纬蟻伪渭渭苇蟼.

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329 reviews109 followers
July 3, 2018
螤慰位蠀蟽蠂喂未苇蟼, 蟺慰位蠀未喂伪蟽蟿伪蟿慰, 蔚蠀蠁蠀蔚蟼, 蔚谓未喂伪蠁蔚蟻慰谓, 蟿慰 螒蟽蟿蔚喂慰 蟿慰蠀 螝慰蠀谓蟿蔚蟻伪 (纬喂伪 蟿慰谓 慰蟺慰喂慰 畏尉蔚蟻伪 畏未畏 蟺蠅蟼 蔚喂谓伪喂 蔚谓伪蟼 伪蟺 蟿慰蠀蟼 伪纬伪蟺畏渭蔚谓慰蠀蟼 渭慰蠀 蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁蔚喂蟼 纬喂伪 蟿畏谓 蟺位慰蠀蟽喂伪, 蔚喂位喂魏蟻喂谓畏 魏伪喂 谓伪蟿慰蠀蟻伪位喂蟽蟿喂魏畏 纬位蠅蟽蟽伪 蟿慰蠀 魏伪喂 纬喂伪 蟿畏谓 慰尉蠀未蔚蟻魏畏 魏伪喂 蔚位伪蠁蟻蠅蟼 蔚喂蟻蠅谓喂魏畏 渭伪蟿喂伪 蟿慰蠀 蟺伪谓蠅 蟽蟿畏谓 纬魏蟻喂味伪 蟺蟻伪纬渭伪蟿喂魏慰蟿畏蟿伪) 蔚喂谓伪喂 蔚谓伪 尾喂尾位喂慰 蟺慰蠀 渭喂位伪蔚喂 纬喂伪 慰位伪: 螕喂伪 蟿慰谓 魏慰渭渭慰蠀谓喂蟽渭慰, 蟿畏谓 蟽魏位畏蟻畏 魏喂 伪纬蔚位伪蟽蟿畏 味蠅畏 渭蔚蟽伪 蟽 伪蠀蟿慰 蟿慰 魏伪胃蔚蟽蟿蠅蟼, 蟿慰谓 蔚位蟺喂未慰蠁慰蟻慰 蔚蟻蠅蟿伪 蟺慰蠀 蔚喂谓伪喂 蟿慰 伪谓蟿喂胃蔚蟿慰 蟿慰蠀 蟽伪蟻魏喂魏慰蠀, 蟿伪 慰谓蔚喂蟻伪 蟺慰蠀 蠄伪位喂未喂味慰谓蟿伪喂, 蟿畏谓 伪尾伪蟽蟿伪蠂蟿畏 蔚位伪蠁蟻喂慰蟿畏蟿伪 蟿畏蟼 谓蔚慰蟿畏蟿伪蟼 魏伪喂 蟺蠅蟼 伪蠀蟿畏 未蔚谓 蟽蠀纬蠂蠅蟻蔚喂蟿伪喂 伪蟺慰 蟿畏谓 魏慰喂谓蠅谓喂伪, 渭喂位伪蔚喂 伪魏慰渭畏 纬喂伪 蟿慰谓 纬伪渭慰, 蟿畏谓 渭慰喂蠂蔚喂伪, 蟿慰 蟺伪纬喂未蔚蠀渭伪 蟿蠅谓 伪谓胃蟻蠅蟺蠅谓 渭蔚蟽伪 蟽蟿喂蟼 谓慰蟻渭蔚蟼 蟿畏蟼 魏慰喂谓蠅谓喂伪蟼, 渭喂位伪蔚喂 纬喂伪 蟿畏谓 螜蟽蟿慰蟻喂伪 魏伪喂 蟿畏谓 螠慰蠀蟽喂魏畏 魏伪喂 蟿畏谓 魏伪胃畏渭蔚蟻喂谓畏 味蠅畏.... 渭喂位伪蔚喂 纬喂伪 慰位伪 渭蔚 伪谓慰喂蠂蟿伪 蠂伪蟻蟿喂伪, 蠂蠅蟻喂蟼 谓伪 魏蟻蠀尾蔚喂 蟿畏谓 伪蟽蠂畏渭喂伪, 伪位位伪 慰蠀蟿蔚 魏伪喂 蟿畏谓 慰渭慰蟻蠁喂伪, 蠂蠅蟻喂蟼 谓伪 蠅蟻伪喂慰蟺慰喂蔚喂 伪位位伪 慰蠀蟿蔚 魏伪喂 谓伪 位蠀蟺伪蟿伪喂. 螣 伪蠁畏纬畏蟿畏蟼 伪位位伪味蔚喂 蟺蟻慰蟽蠅蟺慰 蟽蔚 魏伪胃蔚 魏蔚蠁伪位伪喂慰, 魏伪喂 伪位位伪味蔚喂 蟽蠀谓蔚蟺伪魏慰位慰蠀胃伪 蟽蔚 魏伪胃蔚 蔚谓慰蟿畏蟿伪 畏 慰蟺蟿喂魏畏, 畏 伪谓蟿喂位畏蠄畏 蟺蔚蟻喂 味蠅畏蟼 魏伪喂 蟺蟻伪纬渭伪蟿喂魏慰蟿畏蟿伪蟼, 蟿慰 纬蟻伪蠄喂渭慰, 慰 蟿蟻慰蟺慰蟼 蔚魏蠁蟻伪蟽畏蟼 - 蟽伪谓 蟽蠀位位慰纬喂魏慰 蔚蟻纬慰, 蟽伪谓 谓 伪位位伪味蔚喂 慰 蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁蔚伪蟼 蟽蔚 魏伪胃蔚 魏蔚蠁伪位伪喂慰.
螝蟻伪蟿伪喂慰 尾喂尾位喂慰 蟿慰蠀 20慰蠀 伪喂蠅谓伪 蟺慰蠀 未蔚谓 伪蠁畏谓蔚喂 谓伪 尉蔚蠂伪蟽蟿蔚喂 畏 螜蟽蟿慰蟻喂伪, 伪蠀蟿慰蟼 慰 "位蔚蟺蟿慰蟼 蟽蟺伪纬纬慰蟼 渭谓畏渭畏蟼 渭蔚蟽伪 蟽蟿慰谓 蠅魏蔚伪谓慰 蟿畏蟼 位畏胃畏蟼"
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377 reviews211 followers
November 19, 2022
Dieser Roman kommt unscheinbaren daher: 鈥濪er Scherz鈥�. Dabei h盲tte er einen gro脽en Titel wie 鈥濻chuld und Vergebung鈥�, 鈥濳erker und Freiheit鈥� oder 鈥濽nverst盲ndnis und Einsicht鈥� verdient. Denn dies sind die eigentlichen Themen dieses gro脽en Romans. In diesen Dimensionen entwickelt sich 眉ber knapp 2 Jahrzehnte die Geschichte des intellektuellen Ludvik, der einfachen Arbeiterin Lucie, des Katholiken Kostka, der Mitl盲uferin Helena und des volksnahen Jaroslav. Die Handlung spielt in der heute nicht mehr existierenden Tschechoslowakei, genauer gesagt im Landesteil M盲hren, und hier vor allem in der Bergbaustadt Ostrava und eine Provinzstadt in der m盲hrischen Slowakei, vermutlich Uhersk茅 Hradi拧t臎 statt. Dort gibt es noch den geheimnisvollen Brauch des Ritts der K枚nige, bei dem ein als Frau verkleideter Junge mit einer Blume in Mund mit seinem Gefolge durch die Stra脽en zieht.


Anl盲sslich dieses Festes kommt es denn auch zum gro脽en Showdown zwischen Helena, Ludvik und Jaroslav. Die Geschichte zwischen Ludvik, Lucie und Kostka l枚st sich kurz zuvor auf. Zeitlich bewegen wir uns zwischen der kurzen demokratischen Phase des Landes nach dem 2. Weltkrieg, dem kommunistischen Umsturz im Februar 1948 und den nachfolgenden stalinistischen Repressionen bis in das Vorfeld des Prager Fr眉hlings in der zweiten H盲lfte der 60er Jahre.
Kann ein Roman heute noch 鈥瀎unktionieren鈥�, der vor mehr als einem halben Jahrhundert geschrieben wurde und in einem Land und einer Gesellschaftsordnung spielt, die nicht mehr existieren? Der Scherz kann es. Seine Aussagen sind exemplarisch, aber von allgemeiner G眉ltigkeit. So stellt Kostka fest In einer Welt zu leben, in der niemandem vergeben wird, wo alle unerl枚sbar sind, ist dasselbe, wie in der H枚lle zu leben. Hier 眉berschneiden sich der katholische Gedanke der S眉ndenvergebung durch Beichte und Bu脽e mit dem sozialistischen Ritual der Selbstkritik und L盲uterung durch k枚rperlicher Arbeit inmitten der werkt盲tigen Bev枚lkerung. Als noch zentraler empfand ich aber dieses Zitat: Ich will nur sagen, dass keine gro脽e Bewegung, die die Welt ver盲ndern soll, L盲cherlichmachung und Herabsetzung duldet, denn das ist der Rost, der alles zerfri脽t. Insofern ist der Titel also richtig gew盲hlt und zugleich ist Kundera in diesem 1967 erschienenen Buch der Prophet kommender Ereignisse, denn wie wir wissen, konnte das Regime die Kritik und Zuschaustellung seiner Ausw眉chse w盲hrend des Prager Fr眉hlings tats盲chlich nicht erdulden.
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408 reviews115 followers
July 2, 2020
Let me be perfectly honest 鈥� I was a man of many faces

They were all real

I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be

She was constitutionally unable to look behind anything; she could only see the thing itself

Optimism is the opium of the people! A healthy atmosphere stinks of stupidity! Long live Trotsky!

A nihilist likes a good laugh, said one of them. He laughs at people who suffer

The only human bond we had was our uncertain future

Slowly I came to realize that there was no power capable of changing the image of my person lodged in the supreme court of human destinies

Letters written by parents are messages from a shore we are forsaking; all they can do is make us aware of how far we have strayed from the port we left, enveloped in the selfless devotion of our loved ones. Yes, their letters say, the port still exists, it's still there in all its comforting, pristine beauty; but the road back, the way back is lost

Nothing brings people together more quickly and easily than shared melancholy

It's not easy to live with people willing to send you to exile or death, it's not easy to become intimate with them, it's not easy to love them

All the basic situations in life occur only once

As it turned out, nothing was in my hands. Neither our estrangement nor our reunion was in my hands

So I hope that they were in the hands of time

In my view newspaper have one extraordinary attribute 鈥� they make no noise

Their tediousness is silent; they can be put aside, thrown into the wastebasket

The tediousness of radio lacks that extenuating attribute; it persecutes us in cafes, restaurants, trains, even during our visits to people who have become incapable of living without nonstop feeding of the ear

My mistrust is so entrenched that when someone starts listing his likes and dislikes I am unable to take it seriously, or to put it more precisely, I can accept it only as an indication of the person鈥檚 self-image

Once more I was amazed by the incredible human capacity for transforming reality into a likeness of desires or ideals

I longed for her to be gone; for her body to dematerialize, melt, turn into a stream and flow away, or evaporate and vanish out the window

You became bitter to the depth of your soul, convinced of the great injustice done you. That sense of injustice still determines every step you take

Other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth

And this seeming unreality made me think that everything around me was not present but the past

My entire life, it seemed to me, had always been overpopulated by shadows

Where sorrow is not lightness, laughter is not grimace, love is not laughable

Where love is still love and pain is still pain, where values are not yet devastated

And it seemed to me that inside these songs I was at home
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1,771 reviews8,943 followers
February 5, 2021
"Because to live in a world in which no one is forgiven and all redemption is impossible is to live in Hell."
- Milan Kundera, The Joke

"And that is the Joke: a melancholy duet about the schism between the body and the soul."
- Milan Kundera, preface to The Joke

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I liked it. It wasn't my favorite and somethings were probably lost in translation (actually, according to Kundera in 4/5 of the translations of this book things were definitely lost/changed. But I loved it. There were chapters and paragraphs that definitely hit hard. There are parts of Communist Czechoslovakia that feel a bit like late-stage Capitalism: the cancelling of enemies, the superficiality, the corruption of religion and ideology, and how people feel both lost and abandoned. But still, this book is also, according to Kundera, a love story so we can't forget about that. And like all Kundera novels it floats in zones between spirituality and corporality, between mysticism and rationalism, between philosophy and emotion.

Not done. But done enough.
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406 reviews141 followers
December 22, 2017
螠蟺慰蟻蔚委 蟿慰 蟺蟻蠅蟿蠈位蔚喂慰 苇蟻纬慰 谓伪 蔚委谓伪喂 渭蔚蟽蟿蠈, 蟽蠁喂蠂蟿慰未蔚渭苇谓慰, 位蠀蟻喂魏蠈 魏伪喂 喂蟽慰蟺蔚未蠅蟿喂魏蠈, 蠂蠅蟻委蟼 维蟿蟽伪位蔚蟼 渭慰蠀蟿味伪位喂苇蟼, 蟺伪胃喂伪蟽渭苇谓慰, 伪谓伪蟿蟻蔚蟺蟿喂魏蠈, 蟺慰位喂蟿喂魏蠈, 蔚蟻蠅蟿喂魏蠈, 伪谓胃蟻蠅蟺喂蟽蟿喂魏蠈, 蟺慰谓蔚渭苇谓慰, 蔚蠀蟻蠉; 螖喂伪尾维蟽蟿蔚 蟿慰!
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September 5, 2017
There was a time when I read a lot of Milan Kundera but with the exception of they have blended together in my memory.

The novel is a twist on a revenge novel like . There has been a wrong here too, and the perpetrator of it has moved in on the Hero's love. The digging though, is part of the punishment and not a means to escape. The twist is that the attempt at revenge goes awry .

What we see instead is a series of contrasts between the plans, hopes and expectations that people lay upon those who surround them and how all of them go miss as people slip out of the roles intended for them.

The last joke in the novel will amuse most those who find the idea of people taking laxatives accidentally funny (what! the idea doesn't make you smile, why it was only his pride that was hurt).
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186 reviews38 followers
February 14, 2025
Das herausragende Merkmal dieses Romans ist die Komposition: Kundera w盲hlt neben dem Protagonisten Ludvik drei weiter Perspektivfiguren, die jeweils nicht nur Randfiguren in Ludviks Geschichte sind, sondern ihre eigenen Geschichten, Pr盲gungen, Motive mitbringen. Daraus zieht der Roman seine Vielschichtigkeit, die sich nicht nur auf Systemkritik an den kommunistischen Apperatschiks, die wegen des titelgebenden Scherzes Ludviks Existenz zerst枚ren, bezieht. An Ludviks Beziehung zu Lucie etwa stellt er das komplexe Verh盲ltnis von Liebe und Begehren dar, in Kostkas Liebe zu Lucie die wahre Liebe unter den Vorzeichen von Empathie und Verst盲ndnis, an Jaroslav das verbissene Festhalten an der Tradition in einem sich fortschrittlich geb盲rdenden, aber letztlich verkrusteten System, an Ludviks Verh盲ltnis zu Helena die Hohlheit seines Wunsches nach Vergeltung. Dies transportiert Kundera in einer flie脽enden Sprache voller tiefer Einsichten, die insbesondere Ludviks inneren Lernprozess veranschaulichen.
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Author听1 book224 followers
May 4, 2011
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