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Whether or not Milan Kundera squealed on anyone during the communist rule of his home country of Czechoslovakia is beside the point: the man was and is a good writer. Though this tale is often overlooked when one considers Kundera's more famous work, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, this one is right up there with it. To get The Joke, read it and prepare not to laugh.