![]() ![]() 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. 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. ![]() 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. full of telling details, truths large and small, to which just about every reader will respond.” - People The novel is a genre-defying mix of historical fiction. It is a meditation on life, on the erotic, on the nature of men and women and love. The Unbearable Lightness of Being was published in Paris in 1984 by Czech author Milan Kundera. Kundera writes about love as if in a trance so the beauty of it is enchanting and dreamy. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |