米兰·昆德拉的第一部小说《玩笑》完稿于1965年12月5日,出版于1967年春天的布拉格。尽管1967年的捷克仍属于共产党统治,但是,自由的空气已经促使捷克的审查机制有所松动,因此,米兰·昆德拉的小说《玩笑》在没有经历多少周折后就通过了国家审查委员会的重重关卡而得以很快出版。当时,书的发行量很大,受到评论界 Milan Kundera’s first novel, “joke,” was published on December 5, 1965, in Prague in the spring of 1967. Although the 1967 Czech Republic still belonged to communist rule, however, the free air has already contributed to the loosening of the censorship mechanism in the Czech Republic. Therefore, Milan Kundera’s novel Joking passed the review of the National Review Committee Able to publish sooner or later. At that time, the circulation of the book was very large, subject to critics