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The Unbearable Lightness of Being Author: Milan Kundera Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Author: Milan Kundera Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House
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Introduction · · · · · ·
* A bestseller with over 300 million copies sold worldwide
* The Greatest Novels of the 20th Century
* Milan Kundera's masterpieces
A book about life choices: the relativity of light and heavy
"If the first rehearsal of life is life itself, then what is the value of life?"
"Everything is experienced immediately, only once, and there is no preparation."
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"The Unbearable Lightness of Being" is Milan Kundera's representative novel and a world-renowned bestseller. The novel is based on the historical changes in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s and unfolds the story with the accidental and fateful love of Tomas and Theresa as the main line. It not only describes the emotional entanglements of several pairs of men and women, but also writes about the ups and downs of personal destiny in major changes in circumstances and the choices of individuals at moments of change. It is also a philosophical novel with rich layers and complex imagery. It begins with the mysterious question of the weight of human life under the delirium of eternal reincarnation. With the continuous interweaving of the life trends and thoughts of the characters in the book, it proposes the relativity of the lightness and heaviness of life, and the spirit and the flesh.
The book is one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, and with it Kundera firmly established himself as the world's greatest living writer.
—The Washington Times
His works have given me the firm belief that humanity will survive, the world will survive, and that everything I believe in, seek and desire in this world with all my heart will regain its human face.
I am grateful to him because on this tragic day, he has made me realize more strongly than ever that even death is powerless in the face of immortality.
——French writer Louis Aragon
A hidden and glittering masterpiece.
—Ian McEwan
I have only read The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Waltz of Farewell, and I like them very much. They are quite different from Latin American and American writers... The satire in the novels is a bit like black humor, but not completely, forming a unique flavor.
——Mo Yan
About the Author
Milan Kundera (1929- )
A world-renowned novelist and literary critic. Born in Brno, Czechoslovakia in 1929, he has lived in France since 1975. He has written 16 works, including novels such as "The Joke", "Life is Elsewhere", "Farewell Waltz", "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting", "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", "Immortality", "Slowness", "Identity", "Ignorance", "Celebrating Meaninglessness", short story collection "Laughable Love", essay collection "The Art of the Novel", "The Betrayed Will", "Curtain", "Meeting", and drama "Jacques and His Master". He won the Medici Foreign Novel Prize in 1973, the Jerusalem Literature Prize in 1985, the French Academy Literature Prize in 2001, and the Franz Kafka International Literature Prize in 2020.
Xu Jun
A famous French translator and French literature expert. He was the vice president of the Graduate School of Nanjing University, professor and doctoral supervisor of the Spanish Department of the School of Foreign Languages of Nanjing University, and is currently a senior professor of liberal arts at Zhejiang University and executive vice president of the China Translators Association. He has written "Translation Theory", "Introduction to Translation Studies", "Theory and Practice of Literary Translation - Translation Dialogues", "Research on Literary Translation Criticism", etc. He has translated more than 30 French literary and social science works, such as "Remembrance of Things Past" (Volume 4), "Uncle Bons", "The Romantic Gentlemen", "The Alder King", "The Prosecution Record", etc. In 1999, he was awarded the French Gold Medal of Education by the French government, and in 2012, he was awarded the Special Contribution Award for Translation by the China Translators Association.
