Critical Essay by Clive Jordan
In Czechoslovakia it's still little more than a year since progressive writers like Milan Kundera were associated with Dubcek's noble attempt to build &#x...
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Critical Essay by Michael Berman
"The Joke"—a Czech novel that measures up to Czechoslovakia's wonderfully human films—is 40-year-old Milan Kundera's first n...
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Critical Essay by D.a.n. Jones
When a first-rate novel comes to us from Communist Europe, we do not want it sterilized and packaged; we want it raw. Last year, the Czechoslovakian author of The Joke ...
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Critical Essay by LubomÍr DoleŽel
A follower of the tradition of the multiperspective novel in modern Czech fiction, Kundera made a substantial contribution to the development of its de...
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Critical Essay by Philip Roth
[Philip Roth is credited with bringing Kundera's works to the attention of the English-speaking public. The essay from which this excerpt is taken was originally ...
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Critical Essay by David Lodge
Twenty years ago, when the Critical Quarterly and I were young, and Milan Kundera was writing The Joke and wondering, no doubt, whether he would be allowed to publish it...
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In the following excerpt, Wilhelmus evaluates "the new 'definitive' version" of The Joke in relation to contemporary history.
In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the animals say ...
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The nine Army buddies came to this Panhandle town months ago to bury one of their best friends, killed by a roadside bomb while they were serving together in Iraq. They made a pact to return here a...
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A humor editor who published books of jokes by Jay Leno and other comedians without their permission has apologized and agreed to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages.Judy Brown and her ...
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Ryan Seacrest is known as a lot of things _ slick "American Idol" ringmaster, hotshot radio deejay, ubiquitous E! channel host _ but funny guy's not one of them. Which makes his scene-stealing came...
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno
got the last laugh Wednesday in his legal battle with the
creator of numerous joke books filled with stolen gags and punch
lines. The publisher...
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The liberal group MoveOn.org is launching an ad against Republican John McCain and his joke about bombing Iran, arguing that the nation "can't afford another reckless president."The group plans to ...
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An article in the annual joke issue of Princeton University's student newspaper has left some readers accusing its staff of racism.The Daily Princetonian issue included a column with a byline that ...
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An article in the annual joke issue of Princeton University's student newspaper has left some readers accusing its staff of racism.The Daily Princetonian issue included a column with a byline that ...
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Joseph Edward Gallo Jr., who broke from his winemaking family to make cheese and then waged a high-profile spat with his famous brothers over use of the Gallo name, has died. He was 87.Gallo died F...
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Critical Essay by Clive Jordan
Soldiers honored by fallen friend's town
