The Unbearable Lightness of Being (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved az’s request to combine 32 books, including The Unbearable Lightness of Being, 4 days ago.

az submitted a request to combine 32 books, including The Unbearable Lightness of Being, 6 days ago.

Shelfari edited the description of The Unbearable Lightness of Being 3 weeks ago.

• A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover -- these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence, we feel "the unbearable lightness of being" not only as the consequence of our pristine actions but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine.

Shelfari edited the quotations of The Unbearable Lightness of Being Friday, August 28 2009.

• Added a quotation: “...the idea of eternal return implies a perspective from which things appear other than as we know them: they appear without the mitigating circumstance of their transitory nature. This mitigating circumstance prevents us from coming to a verdict. For how can we condemn something that is ephemeral, in transit? in the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine... in this world everything is pardoned in advance and therefore cynically permitted."”Narrator

Heather K edited the description of The Unbearable Lightness of Being Friday, July 31 2009.

• A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover--these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence, we feel "the unbearable lightness of being" not only as the consequence of our private...

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Unbearable Lightness of Being Tuesday, July 21 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• 1 : Milan Kundera:
• 2 : Michael Henry Heim:

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Unbearable Lightness of Being Tuesday, July 21 2009.

• Edited a contributor: Michael Henry Heim: (Primary AuthorNone)

Peiyu W edited the quotations of The Unbearable Lightness of Being Monday, July 20 2009.

• Added a quotation: “The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities”
• Added a quotation: “Yes, a husband's funeral is a wife's true wedding”

Shelfari edited the description of The Unbearable Lightness of Being Monday, July 20 2009.

• A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover--these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence, we feel "the unbearable lightness of being" not only as the consequence of our private...

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Unbearable Lightness of Being Thursday, July 16 2009.

• Added a contributor: Milan Kundera: (Primary Author)
• Added a contributor: Michael Henry Heim: (Primary Author)