The Joke Quick Creative deeply versed in philosophy and

deeply versed in philosophy and poetry

Author: Jennifer Oconnell

Jack Duvall is President of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict

and theory of historical progress leading to a church that would be both Evangelical and Catholic

The Joke Quick Creative deeply versed in philosophy andAll too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now, a quarter century after The Joke was first published and several years after the collapse of the Soviet imposed Czechoslovak regime, it becomes easier to put such implications into perspective in favor of valuing the book (and all Kundera 's work) as what it truly is: great, stirring literature that sheds new light on the