The Unbearable Lightness of Being Mass market paperbound - 2008
by Milan Kundera
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Readers are divided on Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Admirers praise the lucid, playful prose, the non?linear structure, and the philosophic range—from eternal return to kitsch—while citing Tereza and the closing section with the dog as especially affecting. Critics object to the didactic, intrusive narrator, describe the tone as pretentious or pseudo?intellectual, and call out what they see as male?gaze portrayals of women; some also found the plot diffuse and the Prague Spring context hard to parse. Overall, it’s respected for its ideas and style, but its philosophical digressions and authorial commentary make it a polarizing experience.
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- Title The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Author Milan Kundera
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition [ Edition: repri
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial
- Publication date 2008-09
- ISBN 9780061686696 / 0061686697
- Weight 0.62 lbs (0.28 kg)
- Dimensions 7.12 x 4.5 x 0.98 in (18.08 x 11.43 x 2.49 cm)
- Category Fiction - General
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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