UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING,THE

The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a story of irreconcilable love and infidelities in which Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of twentieth- century 'being', offering a wide range of brilliant and amusing philosophical speculations. First published in 1984, Kundera's masterly novel encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy and was at once hailed by critics as a contemporary classic.'Read this book, here is a writer who really matters Malcom Bradbury. 'There are novels that are tragic, or entertaining, and this one is both. There are very few that give a fresh perspective on existence, adn force the reader to reassess his own life and attitudes' Victoria Glendinning- Sunday Times.