Nevědění, předposlední román Milana Kundery napsaný francouzsky, vychází v českém překladu Anny Kareninové a s doslovem Sylvie Richterové. „Co tady ještě děláš!“ Její hlas nebyl zlý, ale nebyl ani přívětivý; Sylvie se hněvala. „A kde bych měla být?“ zeptala se Irena. „Doma!
Klima, a celebrated jazz trumpeter, receives a phone call announcing that a young nurse with whom he spent a brief night at a fertility spa is pregnant. She has decided he is the father. And so begins a comedy which, during five madcap days, unfolds with ever-increasing speed.
The Joke, Milan Kundera's first novel, gained him a huge following in his own country and launched his worldwide literary reputation. In his foreword Kundera explains why this completely revised translation is the definitive edition of his work. 'It is impossible to do justice here to the subtleties, comedy and wisdom of this very beautiful novel.
'This book is a novel in the form of variations. The various parts follow each other like the various stages of a voyage leading into the interior of a theme, the interior of a thought, the interior of a single, unique situation the understanding of which recedes from my sight into the distance.
