The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
$15.26 inc. tax
Preowned hardcover novel.
By Milan Kundera
ISBN 0-06-015258-3
First Edition Harper & Row 1984
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On the inside cover:
“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 in Milan Kundera's masterful new novel, his first since The Book of Laughter and Forgetting.
Controlled by day, Tereza's jealousy awakens by night, transformed into ineffably sad death-dreams, while Tomas, a successful surgeon, alternates loving devotion to the dependent Tereza with the ardent pursuit of other women. Sabina, an independent, free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals (of parents, husband, country, love itself, whereas her lover, the intellectual Franz, loses all because of his earnest goodness and fidelity.
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, says the novelist, "the…”
