The unbearable lightness of being: Milan Kundera - Brossura

Kundera, Milan

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ISBN 10: 0571200834 ISBN 13: 9780571200832

Casa editrice: Faber and Faber, 1999

Riassunto

In this novel - a story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities - Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of twentieth-century 'Being' 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. We feel, says the novelist, 'the unbearable lightness of being' - not only as the consequence of our private acts but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine.Juxtaposing Prague, Geneva, Thailand and the United States, this masterly novel encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy, and embraces, it seems, all aspects of human existence. It offers a wide range of brilliant and amusing philosophical speculations and it descants on a variety of styles.

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Descrizione del libro:

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera is one of the most important and affecting novels written in the twentieth century, drawing together the Czechoslovakia of the Prague Spring and the Russian invasion, the philosophy of Nietzsche, and the love affairs of a number of heartbreakingly familiar characters.

L'autore:

The French-Czech novelist Milan Kundera was born in the Czech Republic and has lived in France since 1975. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed and bestselling novels The Joke, Life is Elsewhere, The Farewell Waltz, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Immortality, and the short-story collection Laughable Loves -- all originally in Czech. His more recent novels , Slowness, Identity, and Ignorance, as well as his nonfiction works, The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain, and Encounter, were originally written in French.

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• Editore: Faber and Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0571200834
• ISBN 13: 9780571200832
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 311