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The unbearable lightness of being

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: 1984 Faber and Faber LondonDescription: 305 pISBN:
  • 9780571135394
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 891.8635 K8U6
Summary: In this novel - a story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities - Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of twentieth-century 'Being' 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. We feel, says the novelist, 'the unbearable lightness of being' - not only as the consequence of our private acts but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine. (http://www.faber.co.uk/work/unbearable-lightness-of-being/9780571135394/)
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Books Vikram Sarabhai Library Rack 44-A / Slot 2479 (3rd Floor, East Wing) General Stacks 891.8635 K8U6 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available TP (25/11/16) pages torn (7 to 10) 176289

In this novel - a story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities - Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of twentieth-century 'Being' 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. We feel, says the novelist, 'the unbearable lightness of being' - not only as the consequence of our private acts but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine. (http://www.faber.co.uk/work/unbearable-lightness-of-being/9780571135394/)

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