The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Release date: 1 November 1987
ISBN-10 : 0060914653 | ISBN-13: 9780060914653

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"20.7. Oh boy, what have I read this time? The Unbearable Lightness of Being is like a Czech New Wave film in a literary format. I can easily recognize God knows how many similar themes and motifs from my favourite Czech films ever, the closest one to this being "The Sun in a Net", which actually gave me more insight into this novel and vice versa. Incredible."

"Written by: Milan Kundera Published: 1984 (French), 1985 (Czech. English) Publishers: Faber & Faber, Harper & Row, Gallimard, and 68 Publishers Number of Pages: 393 "Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.โ "

" In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine. Twisting and turning beside the slumbering Tereza, he recalled something she had told him a long time before in the course of an insignificant conversation. They had been talking about his friend Z. when she announced, If I hadn't met you, I'd certainly have fallen in love with him. Even then, her words had left Tomas in a strange state of melancholy, and now he realized it was only a matter "