His career, began with a joke—which is the literal translation of the title of Milan Kundera's debut novel Žert—but readers familiar with this author's worldview will not be surprised at the eventual adverse con- sequences. In Kundera's fiction, jokes are rarely a laughing matter, and laughter itself the most equivocal of human traits.
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