The unbearable lightness of being /
Kundera, Milan.
The unbearable lightness of being / Milan Kundera ; translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim. - Great Britain : Faber & Faber, 1984. - 305p. ; 21 cm. - Harper Perennial modern classics. .
Lightness and weight -- -Soul and body -- Words misunderstood -- Soul and body -- Lightness and weight -- The grand march -- Kerenin's smile.
Interweaves story and dream, past and present, and philosophy and poetry in a sardonic and erotic tale of two couples--Tomas and Teresa, and Sabina and her Swiss lover, Gerhart. A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon, a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals--while her other lover, earnest, faithful, and good, stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and fortuitous events, and everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence we feel "the unbearable lightness of being."
9780571135394
2016387521
Surgeons--Czechoslovakia--Fiction.
Surgeons.
Czechoslovakia.
Fiction.
891.8635 / KUN
The unbearable lightness of being / Milan Kundera ; translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim. - Great Britain : Faber & Faber, 1984. - 305p. ; 21 cm. - Harper Perennial modern classics. .
Lightness and weight -- -Soul and body -- Words misunderstood -- Soul and body -- Lightness and weight -- The grand march -- Kerenin's smile.
Interweaves story and dream, past and present, and philosophy and poetry in a sardonic and erotic tale of two couples--Tomas and Teresa, and Sabina and her Swiss lover, Gerhart. A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon, a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals--while her other lover, earnest, faithful, and good, stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and fortuitous events, and everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence we feel "the unbearable lightness of being."
9780571135394
2016387521
Surgeons--Czechoslovakia--Fiction.
Surgeons.
Czechoslovakia.
Fiction.
891.8635 / KUN