The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Softcover

Kundera, Milan; Translated From

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060912529 ISBN 13: 9780060912529

Publisher: HarperTrade, 1985

Synopsis

Film, Motion Pictures, Fictional Novel, World Literature

About this title

From the Back Cover

A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon, a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals—while her other lover, earnest, faithful, and good, stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and fortuitous events, and everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence we feel "the unbearable lightness of being."

A major achievement from one of the world's truly great writers, Milan Kundera's magnificent novel of passion and politics, infidelity and ideas, encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy, illuminating all aspects of human existence.

About the Author

Milan Kundera is the author of the novels The Joke, Farewell Waltz, Life Is Elsewhere, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and the short-story collection Laughable Loves—all originally written in Czech. His most recent novels Slowness, Identity, and Ignorance, as well as his nonfiction works The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain, and Encounter, were originally written in French.

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperTrade
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0060912529
• ISBN 13: 9780060912529
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 314