Unbearable Lightness of Being

Informationen zum Autor The French-Czech novelist Milan Kundera was born in the Czech Republic and has lived in France since 1975. He died in Paris in 2023. Klappentext 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 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. We feel, says the novelist, 'the unbearable lightness of being' - not only as the consequence of our private acts but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine. Juxtaposing Prague, Geneva, Thailand and the United States, this masterly novel encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy, and embraces, it seems, all aspects of human existence. It offers a wide range of brilliant and amusing philosophical speculations and it descants on a variety of styles. In this classic novel Kundera draws together the Czechoslovakia of the Prague Spring and the Russian invasion, the philosophy of Nietzsche, and the love affairs of a number of heartbreakingly familiar characters. Vorwort 40th anniversary edition of the bestselling modern classic: Milan Kundera's iconic novel of love and politics in communist Czechoslovakia. Zusammenfassung Offers a wide range of philosophical speculations and it descants on a variety of styles. This book draws together the Czechoslovakia of the Prague Spring and the Russian invasion, the philosophy of Nietzsche, and the love affairs of a number of heartbreakingly familiar characters.

Product details

• Authors: Milan Kundera
• Assisted by: Michael Henry Heim (Translation)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 21.08.2000
• EAN: 9780571135394
• ISBN: 978-0-571-13539-4
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Faber & Faber Paperbacks; Faber & Faber Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Tschechische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), PHILOSOPHY / Free Will & Determinism, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Ethics & moral philosophy, Classic fiction, Ethics and moral philosophy, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Former Czechoslovakia