The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) - Softcover

Kundera, Milan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061148520 ISBN 13: 9780061148521

Verlag: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Texto en inglés. Tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Como nuevo. 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.' A major achievement from one of the world's truly great writers, Milan Kundera's magnificent novel of passion and politics, infidelity and ideas, encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy, illuminating all aspects of human existence.

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"Brilliant . . . A work of high modernist playfulness and deep pathos."-- Janet Malcolm, "New York Review of Books""Kundera has raised the novel of ideas to a new level of dreamlike lyricism and emotional intensity." -- Jim Miller, "Newsweek""Kundera is a virtuoso . . . A work of the boldest mastery, originality, and richness."-- Elizabeth Hardwick, "Vanity Fair"

Reseña del editor:

In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. This magnificent novel juxtaposes geographically distant places; brilliant and playful reflections; and a variety of styles to take its place as perhaps the major achievement of one of the world’s truly great writers.

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• Verlag: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0061148520
• ISBN 13: 9780061148521
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 314