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The unbearable lightness of being / Milan Kundera ; translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Czech Series: Harper Perennial modern classicsPublication details: New York : Faber and Faber, 1984.Description: 305 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780571135394
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 891.863 5 KUN 23
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Contents:
Lightness and weight -- -Soul and body -- Words misunderstood -- Soul and body -- Lightness and weight -- The grand march -- Kerenin's smile.
Summary: Interweaves story and dream, past and present, and philosophy and poetry in a sardonic and erotic tale of two couples--Tomas and Teresa, and Sabina and her Swiss lover, Gerhart.Summary: A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon, a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals--while her other lover, earnest, faithful, and good, stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and fortuitous events, and everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence we feel "the unbearable lightness of being."
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Lightness and weight -- -Soul and body -- Words misunderstood -- Soul and body -- Lightness and weight -- The grand march -- Kerenin's smile.

Interweaves story and dream, past and present, and philosophy and poetry in a sardonic and erotic tale of two couples--Tomas and Teresa, and Sabina and her Swiss lover, Gerhart.

A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon, a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals--while her other lover, earnest, faithful, and good, stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and fortuitous events, and everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence we feel "the unbearable lightness of being."

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