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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

By Milan Kundera

Book information

Publisher
HarperCollins
Year
1988
ISBN
0060914653, 9780060914653
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2087890 bytes)
Pages
314\322
Time added
2016-07-15 20:34:25
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Description

Novel by Milan Kundera, first published in 1984 in an English translation and in a French translation as L'Insoutenable Legerete de l'etre. In 1985 the work was published in the original Czech as Nesnesitelna lehkost byti, but it was banned in Czechoslovakia until 1989. Set against the background of Czechoslovakia in the 1960s, the novel concerns a young Czech physician who substitutes a series of erotic adventures over which he thinks he can maintain control for becoming involved in his country's politics, where he feels he can have no power or freedom. Inevitably, he is drawn into Czechoslovakia's political unrest. In a parallel vein, he is forced to choose among the women with whom he is involved.

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