Wednesday, August 8, 2007

“The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera”




“The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera”

I think I will vote this book to become book of the century for novel. This book really digs out the strangeness and complication of human relationship, especially for men and women. And no book has ever liked this, clearly state out different kind of relationship and splendidly melts it with the history of Czech. And story begins when man and woman meet in the rural place of Czech, and they fell in love with each other, because of coincidences. And these fortuities link up their life deeply, and changed their life forever. You can read how their live shaped in irrevocable choices, struggle to love and to be love. And how they torture each other via love. I had personally read this novel 4 times, and quite fun if you can read English and Chinese all together, because this time, the translation for both language is really awesome, and I think already translated out the essential of this book (Original in French and Czech).


However, If you are looking for your answer of finding true romance, maybe you can perceive some in this remarkable work of Milan Kundera.

About Author:

Milan Kundera is Franco-Czech novelist; Kundera's characters are often explicitly identified as figments of his own imagination. Kundera is more concerned with the words that shape or mould his characters than their physical appearance. In his non-fiction work, The Art of the Novel, he says that the reader's imagination automatically completes the writer's vision. He as the writer wishes to focus on the essential, and for him the essential does not include the physical appearance or even the interior world (the psychological world) of his character.

In 1985 Kundera received the Jerusalem Prize. His acceptance address is printed in his essay collection The Art of the Novel. It has also been rumored that he was considered for the Nobel Prize for literature. In 2000 he was awarded the Herder Prize.



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3 comments:

Pei Pei said...

It looks interesting;however, I would like to read Chinese version forst~ I believe they might have it ,do they?
Sharon Chen

Johnny Lin said...

Yes, the Chinese version is great, and translated well. I really recommend to read the Chinese Version.

Sharon said...

can I borrow this book too? I know I may take long time to finish them, but I'll try my best to give all the book back to you which I borrow from you.....