The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Hardcover

Kundera, Milan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0571224385 ISBN 13: 9780571224388

Publisher: Faber and Faber, 2004

Synopsis

The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a story of irreconcilable love and infidelities in which Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of twentieth-century 'Being', offering a wide range of brilliant and amusing philosophical speculations. First published in 1984, Kundera's masterly novel encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy and was at once hailed by critics as a contemporary classic.

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 was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia and has lived in France for almost thirty years. His other novels include The Joke, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting and Identity.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0571224385
• ISBN 13: 9780571224388
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 306