The unbearable lightness of being / Milan Kundera ; translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim.

By:

Kundera, Milan

Contributor(s):

Heim, Michael Henry

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Czech Series: Harper Perennial modern classicsPublication details: Great Britain : Faber & Faber, 1984.Description: 305p. ; 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780571135394

Uniform titles:

Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí. English

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Fiction.

DDC classification:

891.8635 22 KUN

Online resources:

Contributor biographical information

Contents:

Lightness and weight -- -Soul and body -- Words misunderstood -- Soul and body -- Lightness and weight -- The grand march -- Kerenin's smile.

Summary: 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.Summary: 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."

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	IIT Goa Central Library Fiction	891.8635 / KUN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available	SBHPL/INV/59/2024-2025\|\|08-05-2024\|\|26.10%		4348

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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."