The Unbearable Lightness Of Being

by Kundera, Milan

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), by Milan Kundera, is a philosophic novel about a man and his two women and their lives in the Prague Spring of the Czechoslovak Communist period in 1968. Although written in 1982, the novel was not published until two years later, in France; the Czech: Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí and French: l'Insoutenable légèreté de l'être titles are the more common worldwide.

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Paperback / softback. New. 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.
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New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1984. First edition of Kundera's magnum opus. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Peter Milan Kundera." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Fred Marcellino. Translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim. Rare signed and inscribed. When "The Unbearable Lightness of… Read more about this item
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SIGNED EASTON PRESS LEATHERBOUND TRILOGY. Includes ironclad Certificate of Authenticity from Easton. Includes Unbearable Lightness which is signed, Book of Laughter and Forgettting (not signed) and Festival of Insignificance (not signed). Brand new condition; these books are breathtaking. Expedited shipping is welcome; international buyers please request a shipping quote prior to purchase. Signed by author.
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