The Unbearable Lightness of Being
A Novel (Perennial Classics)
by Milan Kundera
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A young woman obsessed with a man torn between his love for her and his womanizing; one of his mistresses and her faithful lover--these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel.
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel
October 27, 2009, Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Paperback
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La insoportable levedad del ser
2008, Tusquets
Paperback
in Spanish
- 29a ed.
9584238590 9789584238597
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Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins
2004, Süddeutsche Zeitung
in German
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Sheng ming zhong bu neng cheng shou zhi qing: Nesnesitelna lehkost byti
2004, Huang guan wen hua chu ban you xian gong si
in Chinese
- Chu ban
9573320673 9789573320678
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不能承受的生命之轻: L'insoutenable légèreté de l'être
2003, 上海译文出版社
in Chinese
- Di 1 ban
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L'insostenibile leggerezza dell'essere
2002, Gruppo editoriale L'Espresso
in Italian
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
May 1, 1999, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, HarperPerennial
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0060932139 9780060932138
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The unbearable lightness of being
1985, Harper & Row
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- 1st Harper Colophon ed.
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"The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs as infinitum!"
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Interweaves story and dream, past and present, and philosophy and poetry in a sardonic and erotic tale of two couples—Tomas and Teresa, and Sabina and her Swiss lover, Gerhart.
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