Milan Kundera Collection 3 Books Set Immortality, Unbearable Lightness of Being

Name: Milan Kundera Collection 3 Books Set Immortality, Unbearable Lightness of Being
Brand: Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera

Description. The Unbearable Lightness of Being: 'A dark and brilliant achievement' (Ian McEwan). A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon; a man torn between his love for her and his womanising. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals; while her other lover stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives are shaped by choices and events, and everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance and weight - and we feel 'the unbearable lightness of being'.. Immortality: 'An artist, clearly one of the best to be found anywhere. Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agnès becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that character springs a novel, a gesture of the imagination that both embodies and articul...