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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

by Milan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim
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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.

Book Details

ISBN13 9780060932138
ISBN10 0060932139
Series/Work OL8972751W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher HarperPerennial Classics
Pages 320
Language EN-US
Created At January 30, 2025
Updated At April 18, 2025
Last OL update January 18, 2025

Subjects

Amor en la literatura Arzt Belletristische Darstellung Chang pian xiao shuo Cirujanos Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author) Cuentos de amor Czech fiction English fiction Ficción Fiction Fiction, general German fiction History Identity (Psychology) Large type books Liebesbeziehung Literary collections Love Love stories

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