The unbearable lightness of being / Milan Kundera ; translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim.
Interweaves story and dream, past and present, and philosophy and poetry in a sardonic and erotic tale of two couples--Tomas and Tereza, and Sabina and her Swiss lover, Gerhart. 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, whereas her lover, the intellectual Franz, loses all because of his earnest goodness and fidelity.
Record details
- ISBN: 0060597186
- ISBN: 9780060597184
- Physical Description: 314 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : HarperCollins, 2004.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Twentieth-anniversary edition"--Jkt. "First published in hardcover in the United States in 1984 by Harper & Row. This hardcover reissue published in 2004"--T.p. verso. Translation of Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Lightness and weight -- Soul and body -- Words misunderstood -- Soul and body -- Lightness and weight -- The grand march -- Karenin's smile. |
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Subject: | Surgeons > Czechoslovakia > Fiction. Man-woman relationships > Czechoslovakia > Fiction. Foreign films. |
Genre: | Feature films. |
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Hussey-Mayfield Mem. PL - Zionsville | FIC KUNDERA, MILAN (Text) | 33946003255457 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Lowell PL - Lowell | F KUNDER (Text) | 33113024995914 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Monticello-Union Twp PL - Monticello | F KUNDERA (Text) | 37743002091504 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Porter County PL - Valparaiso Public Library | KUN (Text) | 33410007910617 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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