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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novelby: Milan Kundera  List Price: $13.95 Amazon.com's Price: $11.55 You Save: $2.40 (17%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 891.8635 EAN: 9780060932138 ISBN: 0060932139 Label: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: May 01, 1999 Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Release Date: April 07, 1999 Studio: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover--these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. 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. Hence, we feel "the unbearable lightness of being" not only as the consequence of our private actions, but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - The portal to a plethora of enjoyable fictionI was introduced to this book by a boy in college. I am eternally grateful to him for facilitating my discovery of Milan Kundera and his works. Kundera has a spooky ability to narrate the inner world of women. I love the philosophical edge of his writing. I have read nearly every novel written by Kundera and I do not like belletristic literature - I read non-fiction. However, if I read novels, it is Kundera. Thank you Bernard Douthit for recommending this book to me. Rating:  - Unbearably TrueKundera's Unbearable Lightness of Being is a light masterpiece, encapsulating the philosophy of a writer who happened to be Czech, happened to live under a repressive regime, and chose to make the best of his life, realizing the futility of wondering "what if." This is a book of ideas, though I cannot comment on its stylistic merit given my ignorance of Czech. It is not primarily a book of political protest. Rather, it is a philosophical flirtation with the possibility of finding meaning ... Read More Rating: - good titlethis is not the best kundera book I have read. I preferred his "Immortality" which to me is a much deeper and challenging book. However, a Kundera book is always a gift and a challenge. Rating: - SingularOne of the discussion topics for this book, suggested by a reader below, is what one can read after reading this masterpiece. This work is so impressive it is impossible to recommend a follow up. Perhaps the answer is a re-read... which is what I did. I understand the author's thesis to be that historical crimes become lighter (more palatable) with historical distance so existence is lighter, but living in the time/place of their perpetration can be unbearable. This thesis is demonstrated ... Read More Rating: - Erotic PhilosophyEinmal ist keinmal. Once is nonce. If you only live once, how can life matter? It is unbearably light.You live and you die. Milan Kundera offers an alternative: perhaps your life happens all over again. Given three colored blocks--red, blue, and yellow--you can rearrange them; and rearrange them; and once again rearrange them. But soon, you repeat yourself. Given an infinite amount of time, these arrangements will repeat infinitely. Apply that to all the universe and your entire ... Read More 
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