The joke kundera6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It was a decade into the Normalisation period when Petr A. In The Joke, this is the case especially for Pavel less so for his (as it turns out, estranged) wife, Helena – who he married not out of love but Party loyalty, and who Ludvik will cruelly seduce. ![]() If one accepted or believed in the regime, one could have an easy life, a high standard of living. The story, which takes place over a few days, is set early into the so-called Normalisation era that followed the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia, but through the narrators’ reflections, covers decades of the country’s history and their own, whether as active participant, collaborator or passive bystander.įor many, it was a time of moral compromise, passivity if not apathy, and escapism. Video of Failed revenge from Zert (the Joke) 1969, Jaromil Jires, Milan Kundera A love story, from Stalinism to Normalisation ![]()
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