An edition of Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí (1984)

THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING.

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An edition of Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí (1984)

THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING.

by

  • ★★★★ 4.1 (86 ratings)
  • 410 Want to read
  • 21 Currently reading
  • 111 Have read

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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Faber
Pages
352

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Subjects

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 Kundera, Underground literature

People

Tomáš, Tomas

Places

Prague, prag, praha, Czech, Tschechoslowakei, Czech Republic, jie ke si luo fa ke

Times

1960-1970s, Geschichte 1968-1978, xian dai

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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
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Die unertra˜gliche Leichtigkeit des Seins
2004, Su˜ddt. 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
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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
Cover of: L'insostenibile leggerezza dell'essere
L'insostenibile leggerezza dell'essere
2002, Gruppo editoriale L'Espresso
in Italian
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Nevynosimai Ła legkost £ bytii Ła: roman
2000, Amfora
in Russian
Cover of: THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING.
THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING.
1999, Faber
Perfect Paperback
Cover of: 生命中不能承受之轻
生命中不能承受之轻
1999, 敦煌文艺出版社
in Chinese
Cover of: The unbearable lightness of being
The unbearable lightness of being
1985, Harper & Row
in English - 1st Harper Colophon ed.

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First Sentence

"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 ad infinitum!"

The Physical Object

Format
Perfect Paperback
Number of pages
352
Dimensions
7 x 4.4 x 1 inches
Weight
6.2 ounces

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL7857435M
ISBN 10
0571200834
ISBN 13
9780571200832
LibraryThing
5068
Goodreads
678974

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OL8972751W

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