This magnificent novel, now available in a beautifully designed Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition, is a story of passion and politics, infidelity and ideas, and encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy, illuminating all aspects of human existence. 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. His most recent novels Slowness, Identity, and Ignorance, as well as his nonfiction. 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. Milan Kundera is the author of the novels The Joke, Farewell Waltz, Life Is Elsewhere, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and the short-story collection Laughable Loves -all originally written in Czech.

In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of two couples, a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing, and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. The novel is a genre-defying mix of historical fiction. In this novel - a story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities - Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of twentieth-century Being In a world in. full of telling details, truths large and small, to which just about every reader will respond.” - People The Unbearable Lightness of Being was published in Paris in 1984 by Czech author Milan Kundera. It is a meditation on life, on the erotic, on the nature of men and women and love. 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. 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.

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