The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel

基本信息·出版社：Harper Perennial

·页码：352 页

·出版日期：2008年

·ISBN：0061686697

·条形码：9780061686696

·装帧：平装

·正文语种：英语

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内容简介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.

作者简介The Franco-Czech novelist Milan Kundera was born in Brno and has lived in France, his second homeland, since 1975. He is the author of the novelsThe Joke, Life Is Elsewhere, Farewell Waltz, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being,andImmortality, and the short-story collectionLaughable Loves—all originally in Czech. His most recent novels,Slowness, Identity,andIgnorance, as well as his nonfiction worksThe Art of the NovelandTestaments Betrayed, were originally written in French.

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Novel by Milan Kundera, first published in 1984 in an English translation and in a French translation as L'Insoutenable Legerete de l'etre. In 1985 the work was published in the original Czech as Nesnesitelna lehkost byti, but it was banned in Czechoslovakia until 1989. Set against the background of Czechoslovakia in the 1960s, the novel concerns a young Czech physician who substitutes a series of erotic adventures over which he thinks he can maintain control for becoming involved in his country's politics, where he feels he can have no power or freedom. Inevitably, he is drawn into Czechoslovakia's political unrest. In a parallel vein, he is forced to choose among the women with whom he is involved. --The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.