"Habent sua fata libelli, Books have their fates. The fate of the book called THE JOKE coincided with a time when the combined inanity of ideological dictatorship (in the Communist countries) and journalistic oversimplification (in the West) was able to prevent a work of art from telling its own truth in its own words. The ideologues in Prague took THE JOKE for a pamphlet against socialism and banned it; the foreign publisher took it for a political fantasy that became reality for a few weeks and rewrote it accordingly." Milan Kundera, "Preface" THE JOKE, June 1982
"Habent sua fata libelli, Books have their fates. The fate of the book called THE JOKE coincided with a time when the combined inanity of ideological dictatorship (in the Communist countries) and journalistic oversimplification (in the West) was able to prevent a work of art from telling its own truth in its own words. The ideologues in Prague took THE JOKE for a pamphlet against socialism and banned it; the foreign publisher took it for a political fantasy that became reality for a few weeks and rewrote it accordingly." Milan Kundera, "Preface" THE JOKE, June 1982
Novodobou svazačku p. Pekarovou by Jaromil Jireš obsadil bez castingu do filmu Žert. Blahopřejeme
a Šimečku by boli mali obsadiť do postavy vytvorenej podľa vzoru jeho deda... len potrebuje také okuliare