The Unbearable Lightness of Being

by Milan Kundera

Category: Fiction

Book Reviews

  • @xaelophone @itunpredictable The only way to describe it - not necessarily the best book, but the perfect bookLink to Tweet
  • @alex A Little Life (phenomenal book you’ll never want to read again), Dune, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (the book I describe to everyone as the •perfect• book)Link to Tweet
  • @mariodgabriele The best book I've ever read (I don't say this lightly) is the Unbearable Lightness of Being. I swear by Kundera.Link to Tweet
  • @lolawajs You have my two favorite books! Unbearable Lightness of Being and God of Small Things.Link to Tweet
  • @jGage718 @gooderdle I’ve heard that from a lot of people. Have you read The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera? That’s one of my favorite books about love and human condition. I’d encourage that 📖 next!Link to Tweet

About Book

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.

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