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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German fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction, Love, Man-woman relationships, Love stories, Identity (Psychology), Surgeons, History, Translations from Czech, Translations into English, Czech fiction, English fiction, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Novela, Relaciones hombre-mujer, Cirujanos, Ficción, Liebesbeziehung, Arzt, Belletristische Darstellung, Large type books, Chang pian xiao shuo, Relaciones Hombre - Mujer, Amor en la literatura, open_syllabus_project, Prague (czech republic), fiction, Romance fiction, Relations entre hommes et femmes, Romans, nouvelles, Cuentos de amor, Literary collections, Fictional Works [Publication Type], Milan KunderaPlaces
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1960-1970s, Geschichte 1968-1978, xian daiShowing 11 featured editions. View all 81 editions?
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel
October 27, 2009, Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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La insoportable levedad del ser
2008, Tusquets
Paperback
in Spanish
- 29a ed.
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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
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- Chu ban
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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
8481304999 9788481304992
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
May 1, 1999, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, HarperPerennial
in English
0060932139 9780060932138
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The unbearable lightness of being
1985, Harper & Row
in English
- 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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