L'Insoutenable Legerete de l'Etre [Mass Market Paperback]

Milan Kundera (Author), Francois Kerel (Translator), Francois Ricard (Translator)

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Text: French, Czech (translation) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 476 pages
• Publisher: Gallimard (1984)
• Language: French
• ISBN-10: 207038165X
• ISBN-13: 978-2070381654
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 6.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #800,535 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Milan Kundera, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, was a student when the Czech Communist regime was established in 1948, and later worked as a labourer, jazz musician and professor at the Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studies in Prague. After the Russian invasion in August 1968, his books were proscribed. In 1975, he and his wife settled in France, and in 1981, he became a French citizen. He is the author of the novels The Joke, Life is Elsewhere, Farewell Waltz, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and of the short-story collection Laughable Loves - all originally in Czech. His most recent novels, Slowness, Identity and Ignorance, as well as his non-fiction works The Art of the Novel and Testaments Betrayed, were originally written in French.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars L'insoutenable vie, January 13, 2005

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marlyne bolduc (sherbrooke) - See all my reviews

This review is from: L'Insoutenable Legerete de l'Etre (Mass Market Paperback)

C'est grâce à un cours de philo que j'ai découvert cet ouvrage. Au début par obligation et ensuite par plaisir, j'ai passé à travers de ce livre en un rien de temps

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Kundera à son meilleur, October 14, 2003

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Charles Létourneau (Montréal, Québec Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: L'Insoutenable Legerete de l'Etre (Mass Market Paperback)

Si vous n'avez qu'un seul ouvrage de Kundera à lire dans votre vie, ça doit absolument être l'insoutenable légèreté de l'être. Kundera à une telle manière de rendre ce qui, à priori, pourrait être une banale histoire d'amour d'une façon particulièrement cynique et bizarre. Bref, j'ai adoré!

5.0 out of 5 stars Litterature tres fine, September 13, 2011

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This review is from: L'Insoutenable Legerete de l'Etre (Mass Market Paperback)

Kundera est un auteur pensif et profond (et, naturellement, un peu sombre). J'ai recu le livre intact. C'est devenu un membre de ma collection de livres preferes.