by Milan Kundera · Distribooks Inc · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783596259922
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«Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins» is the novel by Milan Kundera, published by Distribooks Inc in paperback (384 pages, in German).
Set in Prague after the Soviet invasion, the novel interweaves the lives of the surgeon Tomás, his wife Teresa, the painter Sabina and Franz in a web of sentimental relationships marked by exile and repression. Kundera reflects on love, eroticism, identity and the lightness of being.
The novel was first published in 1984 as «Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí»; this German edition was published in 1997 with a translation by Susanna Roth.
Milan Kundera's novel may appeal to readers of literary and contemporary fiction with an interest in historical and philosophical context.
Milan Kundera was a Czech and French novelist. Kundera went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981. His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.
