The Joke
11 hrs. 5 min.
Description
Kundera’s first novel, written in 1967. The story is set in socialist Czechoslovakia in the 1950s and then again in the mid-1960s. Early in life, the protagonist made an unfortunate joke that catastrophically shattered the happy course of his life and fundamentally changed his personality. Or at least that’s what seems to be the case to the main character after fifteen years. In different chapters we hear the voices of different characters, from the same generation, but with opposite temperaments and attitudes to reality. Although the backdrop is Soviet power and its influence on people’s fates, the book is essentially not about that. Is hatred and the desire to get revenge justified? How should one treat one’s own past: cherish it, refuse it, accept it, forget it? What is coincidence and what is predetermined, and is there any difference between the two?
21:25
Part1_Lyudvik
22:35
Part2_Gelena
24:37
Part3_Lyudvik_01-03
19:29
Part3_Lyudvik_04
35:54
Part3_Lyudvik_05-06
17:26
Part3_Lyudvik_07
13:47
Part3_Lyudvik_08
33:28
Part3_Lyudvik_09-10
34:11
Part3_Lyudvik_11-12
24:52
Part3_Lyudvik_13
12:11
Part3_Lyudvik_14
28:08
Part4_Yaroslav_01-04
18:47
Part4_Yaroslav_05-06
14:50
Part4_Yaroslav_07
05:11
Part4_Yaroslav_08
11:35
Part4_Yaroslav_09
03:25
Part4_Yaroslav_10
21:45
Part5_Lyudvik_01_01
11:37
Part5_Lyudvik_01_02
24:55
Part5_Lyudvik_02
24:04
Part5_Lyudvik_03
23:14
Part5_Lyudvik_04
01:43
Part5_Lyudvik_05
23:11
Part6_Kostka_01-08
10:51
Part6_Kostka_08-11
17:07
Part6_Kostka_12-16
11:14
Part6_Kostka_17-18
05:39
Part6_Kostka_19-20
09:22
Part7_LyudvikYaroslavGelena-01
07:12
Part7_LyudvikYaroslavGelena-02
06:59
Part7_LyudvikYaroslavGelena-03
04:33
Part7_LyudvikYaroslavGelena-04
09:21
Part7_LyudvikYaroslavGelena-05
06:41
Part7_LyudvikYaroslavGelena-06
08:53
Part7_LyudvikYaroslavGelena-07
00:43
Part7_LyudvikYaroslavGelena-08
03:02
Part7_LyudvikYaroslavGelena-09
00:42
Part7_LyudvikYaroslavGelena-10
03:50
Part7_LyudvikYaroslavGelena-11
00:50
Part7_LyudvikYaroslavGelena-12
10:01
Part7_LyudvikYaroslavGelena-13
06:07
Part7_LyudvikYaroslavGelena-14
02:58
Part7_LyudvikYaroslavGelena-15
04:26
Part7_LyudvikYaroslavGelena-16
30:48
Part7_LyudvikYaroslavGelena-17
10:44
Part7_LyudvikYaroslavGelena-18
20:39
Part7_LyudvikYaroslavGelena-19
