NMLP P-021973 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-04

The Joke

Milan Kundera · Coward-McCann (US) / Macdonald (UK) · 1969

Kundera publicly repudiated it, and authorized retranslations followed (Michael Henry Heim, 1982, and Kundera's own definitive version, 1992)

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-021973 for "The Joke" by Milan Kundera (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-021973, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).