The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Kundera, MilanEdition: Reprint
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Publisher(s): HarperCollins Publications
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Summary
Kundera's tremendously popular classic has been hailed by "Newsweek" as having "raised the novel of ideas to a new level of dreamlike lyricism and emotional intensity". It was also made into a major motion picture starring Daniel Day Lewis and Lena Olin.
Author Biography
Milan Kundera was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, in 1929. The publication of his first novel, The Joke, was one of the events of the liberalization culminating in the Prague Spring of 1968. Since 1975, he has lived in France.
Table of Contents
| Part One Lightness and Weight | 1 | (36) | |
| Part Two Soul and Body | 37 | (42) | |
| Part Three Words Misunderstood | 79 | (50) | |
| Part Four Soul and Body | 129 | (44) | |
| Part Five Lightness and Weight | 173 | (68) | |
| Part Six The Grand March | 241 | (38) | |
| Part Seven Karenin's Smile | 279 |
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