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folklorica-4025	Talbayev, Edwige Tamalet	“An invincible Czech horde”: Political and Social Implications of Abstract Moravian Folklore in Milan Kundera’s The Joke	2021	19	.pdf	application/pdf	8048	462	53	Edwige Tamalet Talbayev Department of French Yale University New Haven, CT, USA Abstract This article studies the treatment of Moravian folk music in Milan Kundera´s 1967 first novel, The Joke (Žert). This resort to folklore as FOLKLORICA 2010, Vol. XV 68 the last panacea against an all-pervading feeling of despair is intriguing and this essay seeks to investigate the modalities of Kundera’s refashioning of the motif of Moravian folk music in the post-ideological context of the novel.	cache/folklorica-4025.pdf	txt/folklorica-4025.txt