The Unbearable Lightness of Being Paperback - 2005
by Milan Kundera
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 are told in this masterful classic.
First line
The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs as infinitum!
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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.
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- Title The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Author Milan Kundera
- Series Perennial Classics
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2005-07-05
- ISBN 9780060932138 / 0060932139
- Weight 0.62 lbs (0.28 kg)
- Dimensions 8.12 x 5.38 x 0.76 in (20.62 x 13.67 x 1.93 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Love stories, Mistresses
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 83048363
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
Citations
- Beyond the Cover Author Interv, 12/01/1999, Page 6
- People Weekly, 12/22/2008, Page 51
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