The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The Unbearable Lightness of Being
First edition (French)
AuthorMilan Kundera
Original titleNesnesitelná lehkost bytí
LanguageCzech
GenrePhilosophical fiction
PublisherGallimard (France)
68 Publishers (Czech language)
Harper & Row (US)
Faber & Faber (UK)
Publication date
1984 (French translation)
1985 (original Czech)
Publication placeFrance
Published in English
1984
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages393 (French 1st edition)

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 de l'être).[1] The same year, it was translated to English from Czech by Michael Henry Heim and excerpts of it were published in The New Yorker.[2] The original Czech text was published the following year.

  1. ^ Kundera, Milan (1984). L'Insoutenable Legerete de l'Etre (in French). Paris: Gallimard. ISBN 9782070700721. LCCN 85672962.
  2. ^ ""The Unbearable Lightness of Being"". The New Yorker. 1984-03-12. Retrieved 2022-08-14.

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