Milan Kundera

The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a story of irreconcilable love and infidelities in which Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of twentieth-century 'Being', offering a wide range of brilliant and amusing philosophical speculations. First published in 1984, Kundera's masterly novel encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy and was at once hailed by critics as a contemporary classic. This special hardback edition commemorates the twentieth anniversary of its first publication in English. 'There are novels that are tragic, or entertaining, and this one is both. There are very few that give a fresh perspective on existence, and force the reader to reassess his own life and attitudes.' Sunday Times 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a work of the boldest mastery, originality and richness.' Vanity Fair

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed, and experienced.

A Novel

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

A modern classic, "Immortality" is "ingenious, witty, provocative, and formidably intelligent, both a pleasure and a challenge to the reader" ("Washington Post Book World").

Immortality

A New York Times Notable Book Irena and Josef meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned twenty years earlier. Will they manage to pick up the thread of their strange love story, interrupted almost as soon as it began and then lost in the tides of history? The truth is that after such a long absence "their memories no longer match."

Ignorance

The author initially intended to call this novel The Lyrical Age. The lyrical age, according to Kundera, is youth, and this novel, above all, is an epic of adolescence; an ironic epic that tenderly erodes sacrosanct values: childhood, motherhood, revolution, and even poetry. Jaromil is in fact a poet. His mother made him a poet and accompanies him (figuratively) to his love bed and (literally) to his deathbed. A ridiculous and touching character, horrifying and totally innocent ("innocence with its bloody smile"!), Jaromil is at the same time a true poet. He's no creep, he's Rimbaud. Rimbaud entrapped by the communist revolution, entrapped in a somber farce.

Life Is Elsewhere

حفلة التفاهة

البطء

الهوية

رواية

كتاب الضحك والنسيان

The Joke (Definitive Version)

A Insustentável Levera do Ser é seguramente um dos romances míticos do século XX, uma daquelas obras raras que alteram o modo como toda uma geração observa o mundo que a rodeia.
Adaptado ao cinema por Philip Kaufman, este
é um livro onde se olha, com um olhar umas vezes melancólico e conformado, outras vezes amargo e revoltado, para o destino de um país, para o destino de um continente, para o destino de uma civilização. E poucas vezes se terá tão magistralmente representado a ligação existente entre a aventura individual e a coletiva…
Justapondo lugares distantes geograficamente, reflexões brilhantes e uma variedade de estilos, este magnífico romance representa o auge daquele que é, verdadeiramente, um dos maiores escritores
de sempre.

Milan Kundera

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