Bibliograph

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

Type

Label

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

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

The unbearable lightness of being

Oclc number

319498305

Responsibility statement

Milan Kundera ; translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim

Series statement

Harper Perennial Modern Classics

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."

Table Of Contents

Lightness and weight -- -Soul and body -- Words misunderstood -- Soul and body -- Lightness and weight -- The grand march -- Karenin's smile

Target audience

adult

Classification