The Unbearable Lightness of Being: 'A dark and brilliant achievement' (Ian McEwan)
Written by Milan Kundera
Narrated by Richmond Hoxie
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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.
Milan Kundera
The Franco-Czech novelist Milan Kundera (1929 - 2023) was born in Brno and lived in France, his second homeland, since 1975. He is the author of the novels The Joke, Life Is Elsewhere, Farewell Waltz, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and the short story collection Laughable Loves—all originally in Czech. His later novels, Slowness, Identity, Ignorance, and The Festival of Insignificance, 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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Reviews for The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Recording cuts out in multiple spots for several seconds from chapter 50 onwards which ruins the story telling
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Masterful!
Philosophy and literature merged together, full of true life1 person found this helpful
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Más libros así por favor! no hace mucho comencé a disfrutar de la literatura y he revisado distintos géneros y autores, Milán Kundera presenta aquí una historia que fusiona filosofía con novela, simplemente deleitable, muy recomendado.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5This is booooring. Bleh on the Soviet stuff. I did however like the bit about animals, rural people and machines. I finished it just because it was the selected book of my book club, otherwise I'd stop listening to it 1/4 way in.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A stunning book, beautiful written and captivating - a gorgeous story and complex characters - must read