Summary of The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“The Unbearable Lightness of Being” follows the intertwined lives of two couples and a dog during the Prague Spring of 1968 – a period of political liberalisation and hope in Communist Czechoslovakia, which was ultimately crushed by the invasion of Soviet tanks.
Reasons to read The Unbearable Lightness of BeingÂ
“The Unbearable Lightness of Being” is a modern classic of Czech literature. It is a philosophical and political novel that explores themes of freedom, love and sex. The book became a worldwide bestseller, beloved by both the public and literary critics. Milan Kundera was one of the leading Czech novelists of the 20th century. After the fall of Communism, he won many literature prizes including the Herder Prize in 2000, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 1987, and the Czech State Literature Prize in 2007. Other famous novels of Milan Kundera include “The Joke” and “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting”.
Setting: Prague (Czech Republic)
Original title: Nesnesitelná lehkost bytĂ
Year of publication: 1984
Nr of pages: 320
