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Publisher: Harper

Author: Milan Kundera

ISBN: 9780060932138

Year: 2005

Format: Paperback

Classics, Fiction

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by
Milan Kundera

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$ 400.00 mxn

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by

Milan Kundera

Reviews

"With cunning wit, and elegiac sadness, Milan Kundera, the celebrated Czechoslovak emigre writer, expresses the trap the world has become."

New York Times Book Review

Summary

A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover—these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. 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.

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