Interview with Milan Kundera"
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World Literature Assignment 2b "Interview with Milan Kundera" Interviewer: Mr. Kundera, congratulations on your latest work, The Joke, it is truly a magnificent piece of work, where it has touched many people and made them aware of the world that they live in. Kundera: Thank you very much Interviewer: However, there are many requests of people for you to explain to them how the theme betrayal plays such an important role? Kundera: Well basically, betrayal plays such an important role, because it is always constantly going on in the world, even right now as we speak, someone is being/feeling betrayed. Sometimes one feels betrayed so badly, that he sees that there is no reason for him to go on so he commits suicide or starts betraying as well. In the case of Ludvik, he is seen as a traitor in the view of the party, because he wrote: "OPTIMISM IS THE OPIUM OF...

