The unbearable lightness of being / Milan Kundera ; translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim.

By:

Kundera, Milan

Contributor(s):

Heim, Michael Henry

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Czech Publication details: New York : HarperCollins, 2004.Edition: 1st ed.Description: 314 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN:

9780060597184

Uniform titles:

Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí. English

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Novels

DDC classification:

891.8/635 19

LOC classification:

PG5039.21.U6 N413 2004

Summary: In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of two couples, a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing, and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence, we feel "the unbearable lightness of being" not only as the consequence of our pristine actions but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine. This magnificent novel, now available in a beautifully designed Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition, is a story of passion and politics, infidelity and ideas, and encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy, illuminating all aspects of human existence.

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In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of two couples, a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing, and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence, we feel "the unbearable lightness of being" not only as the consequence of our pristine actions but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine.

This magnificent novel, now available in a beautifully designed Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition, is a story of passion and politics, infidelity and ideas, and encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy, illuminating all aspects of human existence.