The Unbearable Lightness of Being

by Milan Kundera

Rating: 4     7 Votes

Tags: Set in CZECH REPUBLIC Male author

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover—these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. 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. Hence, we feel "the unbearable lightness of being" not only as the consequence of our pristine actions but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine.

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Challenge: Read Around Europe Challenge
Country: Czech Republic flag Czech Republic
Language: EN
Genre: Philosophical Romance
Recommended: 06 Mar 2022

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