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The first collection, in English OR Czech, of the clandestine writings of a central figure--a writer and publisher--of resistance writing after the Soviet crack down following the Prague Spring of 1968.

Ludvik Jahn, joven estudiante universitario y activo miembro del Partido Comunista checo, envía a una compañera de clase una postal en la que se burla del optimismo ideológico imperante. Lo denuncian y es expulsado de la universidad y del partido, y al caer en desgracia se abre ante él un infierno. Atrapado entre dos amores, el de Lucie, tierno y desesperado, y el de Helena, apasionado y cínico, Ludvik vivirá un cúmulo de situaciones a cual más grotesca. Sin embargo, pese a que su vida parece una broma pesada, ya no podrá culpar al destino. Novela. La broma es considerada como una de las más importantes creaciones literarias de Kundera. Cuando se publicó por primera vez, en los años sesenta, el libro vendió más de 120 mil ejemplares en tres días y fue bautizado como "la Biblia de la contrarrevolución".

Ludvik Jahn, joven estudiante universitario y activo miembro del Partido Comunista checo, envía a una compañera de clase una postal en la que se burla del optimismo ideológico imperante. Lo denuncian y es expulsado de la universidad y del partido, y al caer en desgracia se abre ante él un infierno. Atrapado entre dos amores, el de Lucie, tierno y desesperado, y el de Helena, apasionado y cínico, Ludvik vivirá un cúmulo de situaciones a cual más grotesca. Sin embargo, pese a que su vida parece una broma pesada, ya no podrá culpar al destino. Novela. La broma es considerada como una de las más importantes creaciones literarias de Kundera. Cuando se publicó por primera vez, en los años sesenta, el libro vendió más de 120 mil ejemplares en tres días y fue bautizado como "la Biblia de la contrarrevolución".

La broma es la novela de un amor, pero se trata tambien de la novela de una broma extraviada en un mundo que ha perdido el sentido del humor. Una chanza futil y mal comprendida ha roto la vida de Ludvik, aterrado al advertir que su tragedia personal quedara para siempre adherida al ridiculo de un chiste.

It’s 1979 in Communist Czechoslovakia, ten years into the crushing period known as normalization, and Ludvík Vaculík has writer’s block. It has been nearly a decade since he wrote his powerful novel, The Guinea Pigs, and it was in 1968 that he wrote his anti-regime manifesto, Two Thousand Words, which the Soviet Union used as a pretext for invading Czechoslovakia. On the advice of his friend, the poet and surrealist painter Jiří Kolář, Vaculík begins to keep a diary, “a book about things, people, and events.” This marks the beginning of A Czech Dreambook.Fifty-four weeks later, what Vaculík turns out to have written is a unique mixture of diary, dream journal, and outright fiction—an inverted roman à clef in which the author, his family, his mistresses, and the real leaders of the Czech underground play major roles. Undisputedly the most debated novel among the Prague dissident community of the 1980s, it is a work that Vaculík himself described as an amalgam of “hard-boiled documentary” and “magic fiction,” while Václav Havel called it “a truly profound and perceptive account. . . . A great novel about modern life and the crisis of contemporary humanity.”A Czech Dreambook has been hailed as the most important work of Czech literature in the past forty years. And yet it has never before been available in English. Flawlessly translated by Gerald Turner, Vaculík’s masterpiece is a brilliant exercise in style, dry humor, and irony—an important portrait of the lives and longings of the dissidents and post-Communist elites.

It’s 1979 in Communist Czechoslovakia, ten years into the crushing period known as normalization, and Ludvík Vaculík has writer’s block. It has been nearly a decade since he wrote his powerful novel, The Guinea Pigs, and it was in 1968 that he wrote his anti-regime manifesto, Two Thousand Words, which the Soviet Union used as a pretext for invading Czechoslovakia. On the advice of his friend, the poet and surrealist painter Jiří Kolář, Vaculík begins to keep a diary, “a book about things, people, and events.” This marks the beginning of A Czech Dreambook.Fifty-four weeks later, what Vaculík turns out to have written is a unique mixture of diary, dream journal, and outright fiction—an inverted roman à clef in which the author, his family, his mistresses, and the real leaders of the Czech underground play major roles. Undisputedly the most debated novel among the Prague dissident community of the 1980s, it is a work that Vaculík himself described as an amalgam of “hard-boiled documentary” and “magic fiction,” while Václav Havel called it “a truly profound and perceptive account. . . . A great novel about modern life and the crisis of contemporary humanity.”A Czech Dreambook has been hailed as the most important work of Czech literature in the past forty years. And yet it has never before been available in English. Flawlessly translated by Gerald Turner, Vaculík’s masterpiece is a brilliant exercise in style, dry humor, and irony—an important portrait of the lives and longings of the dissidents and post-Communist elites.