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The Unbearable Lightness of Being ( Czech: Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí) is a 1984 novel by Milan Kundera, about two women, two men, a dog, and their lives in the 1968 Prague Spring period of Czechoslovak history. Although written in 1982, the novel was not published until two years later, in a French translation (as L'insoutenable légèreté ...
- Milan Kundera
- 1984
Jan 1, 2001 · 473,979 ratings25,756 reviews. In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. This magnificent novel juxtaposes geographically distant places, brilliant and playful ...
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Feb 5, 1988 · A 1988 drama romance film based on Milan Kundera's novel, starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Juliette Binoche. Set in 1960s Czechoslovakia, it follows a doctor's love affairs and his struggle with the Soviet invasion.
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- Philip Kaufman
- 1988-02-05
May 16, 2024 · The Unbearable Lightness of Being, novel by Milan Kundera, first published in 1984 in English and French translations. In 1985 the work was released in the original Czech, but it was banned in Czechoslovakia until 1989. Through the lives of four individuals, the novel explores the themes of lightness and weight.
Exploring sexual mores against the backdrop of real-life social upheaval, The Unbearable Lightness of Being artfully blends the political and the erotic. Successful surgeon Tomas (Daniel Day-Lewis ...
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- Philip Kaufman
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- Daniel Day-Lewis
Oct 27, 2009 · In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, acclaimed author Milan Kundera tells the story of two couples, a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing, and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a ...
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a 1988 American romantic drama film, an adaptation of the 1984 novel of the same name by Milan Kundera. It was directed by Philip Kaufman, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jean-Claude Carrière, and stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche and Lena Olin. The film portrays Czechoslovak artistic and ...
