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Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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A new encounter with the author Milan Kundera, who became a living myth, in his new home, based on the illustrations he himself drew. It deals with human reality itself, born in history, beyond history, and it depicts the life and love of four men and women who have shouldered the heavy historical scars and personal traumas that shook Europe back in the 1960s and 1970s. A young Teresa, who worked in a small bar in her hometown, ran out to visit her and met with Tomasz, the surgeon who came into the city. Tomasz, who has been overwhelmed by serious love since divorce with his ex-wife, is starting to live with her like an orphan, leaving behind the delicate charm of a baby turzaza who has fallen into the river. But he does not abandon his smudge of the light life he calls erotic friendship and passes on to her. Teresa, who watches such a Tomashi, struggles with jealousy and self-involvement. After the Czechs have lost their freedom in the Soviet invasion, both of them move on to Switzerland together. Teresa, who believed that she could escape from the Czech Republic and also from her lovers, had lost faith in the constant externalities of Tomas and returned to Prague alone beyond the border. Two people whose lives are mixed with jealousy and hatred are so much more than weight. Meanwhile, another lover and painter in Tomma City, Sabina, wants to live free from the weight of her country and history, which is a constant pursuit of her own.

Korean title: 참을 수 없는 존재의 가벼움

Korean author: 밀란 쿤데라

Korean publisher: 민음사

ISBN-13: 9788937437564

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GH********
July 21, 2026

The book packaging is so clean! I don't have anything to do with my books, and I like it because I had a little bit of film elsewhere and I was afraid to be shipped. I want to get clean books, no matter how dirty they get:.

EM***************
November 14, 2023

I bought a book that I borrowed from the library when I heard that Milankundra was out of place, and I bought it from the university, and that was a story about three things about love, that the purest feeling of humanity is compassion, and it shows us why love is so universal in a world where we can be used to being invisible and false, and the last thing I think is death, because I think that we can't live in a life where we believe in truth and falsehood is true.

LK*****
June 25, 2023

If the eternal return is the most heavy burden, we with it in the background. Life reveals itself in the light of brilliance. It's a very sympathetic book.

CH*******
March 5, 2023

I re-sale it with memories that I read very much, very much long ago. It's a lot of times I forget to read it again, and it's new. Most of all, it's beautiful and so big, so five-and-a-half-hour reading.

BN****
August 23, 2022

34! Twelve of the 48 pages are print-out. I called the school board and said that I could only exchange books within a month of my purchase. I'm not comfortable with the exchange. I'm reading over the print bad guy.

CH*****
December 29, 2021

A novel I read for the first time in 26 years, and then I read it again in 32 days. It's as fresh as it was for the first time. So heavy as nechemism, and yet so light as a shit, so light, so human, history and love. There seems to be a reason why people around the world continue to read it. In the late 30s, I wanted to read it again in Kundera's "The Light of Unendurable Beings.".

DB********
October 16, 2021

It's a book I love so much, and the cover I drew by the writer is so beautiful that I bought it again with three books in my house. I like the brief writer that comes out of the front cover, the front door, who's the one with the sentence so big on the back cover of the book. Whoa. The sensitivity this book had. You've broken the feeling you used to feel more like being a little bit soft and tight. That's bad.

AN*******
April 30, 2021

Page 373: You noticed you didn't want to see me for a month. It's a very good book, and I read it several times because I don't understand it. There's hardly any word in my language that says, "I don't want to see.". It's a very awkward way of saying that. There's a normal expression, 'I don't want to see' or 'I won't see', and I wonder why you wrote an awkward, bizarre note.

4M****
February 5, 2021

Oh, my God! And because of the similar values in life, he's a great favorite writer. It's not the burden that weighs us down, but the lightness of beings that cannot be endured.

SJ********
October 20, 2019

I bought it on the cover. It's so beautiful that you can have another one. The size that's coming in both hands. Every night, I read it before my own. Yes, sir!

밀란 쿤데라: 참을 수 없는 존재의 가벼움
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