by Milan Kundera · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432215094
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«La broma» is the novel by Czech writer Milan Kundera, published by Seix Barral in paperback (328 pages, in Spanish).
Set in communist Czechoslovakia, it follows Ludvik Jahn, a university student expelled from the Party and the university for sending a mocking postcard to a female classmate. After that fall from grace, his relationships with Lucie and Helena lead him through grotesque situations, until his own life ends up turned into a heavy joke.
The novel was originally published in Czech in 1967 as «Žert»; this Spanish edition is from 1998.
It will appeal to readers of literary fiction and those seeking 20th-century classics with a political backdrop.
Milan Kundera was a Czech and French novelist. Kundera 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 His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.
