"Habent sua fata libelli, Books have their fates. The fate of the book called THE JOKE coincided with a time when the combined inanity of ideological dictatorship (in the Communist countries) and journalistic oversimplification (in the West) was able to prevent a work of art from telling its own truth in its own words. The ideologues in Prague took THE JOKE for a pamphlet against socialism and banned it; the foreign publisher took it for a political fantasy that became reality for a few weeks and rewrote it accordingly." Milan Kundera, "Preface" THE JOKE, June 1982

Novodobou svazačku p. Pekarovou by Jaromil Jireš obsadil bez castingu do filmu Žert. Blahopřejeme