by Milan Kundera · Planeta Pub Corp · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432231148
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«La broma» is the novel by Czech writer Milan Kundera, published by Planeta Pub Corp in paperback (336 pages, in Spanish).
Set in communist Czechoslovakia, it follows Ludvik Jahn, expelled from the party and university for a joke sent to a female colleague. Years later he tries to take revenge on those who betrayed him, but his plan leads to unforeseen consequences. A story about revenge, politics and humor in a totalitarian regime.
The original Czech title is «Žert». First published in 1967; this Spanish edition dates from 1994.
A read for those who enjoy contemporary narrative and twentieth-century Czech fiction.
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 His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.
