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Title: Mind-expanding.
Review: My reading "The Joke" opened my eyes to an entirely different style of prose than I have ever experienced before. Kundera has more respect for his characters than any American novelist I have ever read. Rather than creating characters to tell the world about himself, I felt that Kundera revealed these characters' lives to tell us all something about the world. The best book I read in 1996 due to its complexity of story yet ease of reading, its engaging characters, and its honest depiction of people who learn to live thier lives despite the expectations of their society. The feelings experienced by these people - alienation, betrayal, revenge, and, in the end, a kind of defiant acceptance - are experiences most of us in late 20th century America can relate to
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