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

by Kundera, Milan.

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Harper & Row, c1984.

9780061148521 (trade pbk.)

9780060597184 (hc : reissue 2004)

9780061686696 (2008 Olive trade pbk.)

9780060932138 (1999 Harper Perennial Classics pbk.)

978006114521 (trade pbk. : 1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics deluxe ed. reissue 2009)

0060914653 (Perennial Library trade pbk.)

1 v. (various pagings).

Translation of: Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí.

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 is told here. 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. Hence, we feel "the unbearable lightness of being" not only as the consequence of our private actions, but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine.

Psychological fiction.

Czech fiction -- Translations into English.

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