Habent sua fata libelli。(书籍有自己的命运。)昆德拉的成名作《玩笑》费了一点周折后,于一九六七年竟然通过审查而问世了。倾国争读,连印三版,总印数达十二万册。一九六八年“布拉格之春”来临,苏联(昆德拉本人称之为“俄国”,他说自己从不用“苏维埃”这个词)出兵占领捷克。事变后两个月,《玩笑》的法译本在巴黎出版,以后被译成欧洲各国语言,乃至日语和希伯来语。 Habent sua fata libelli. (Books have their own destiny.) Kundera’s fame, “Joking,” took a whirlwind and came out in 1967 through censorship. Dumping over the country, and even printed three editions, with a total print of 120,000 copies. The Spring of Prague came in 1968 and the Soviet Union (Kundera himself called it “Russia”) said that he never sent troops to occupy the Czech Republic. Two months after the incident, the French translation of “joke” was published in Paris and later translated into European languages ​​as well as Japanese and Hebrew.