The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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). The same year, it was translated to English from Czech by Michael Henry Heim and excerpts of it were published in The New Yorker. The original Czech text was published the following year.

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