The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Kundera, Milan

ISBN 10: 0060152583 / ISBN 13: 9780060152581

Published by Harper and Row, New York, 1984

About this Item

Translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim. Signed by Kundera, Philip Kaufman, Derek de Lint, and Jean-Claude Carrière on pasted- and laid-in bookplates. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($15.95), lightly rubbed at the edges, a few small chips at the bottom. Tan buckram with black paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Kundera's classic novel set in the the 1968 Prague Spring. Adapted into the 1988 film starring Daniel Day-Lewis.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
• Publisher: Harper and Row, New York
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060152583
• ISBN 13: 9780060152581
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: FIne
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Interweaves story and dream, past and present, and philosophy and poetry in the sardonic and erotic tale of two couples--Tomas and Teresa, and Sabina and her Swiss lover, Gerhart

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.