The Unbearable Lightness of Being 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.
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a 1988 American romantic drama film, an adaptation of the 1984 novel by Milan Kundera. It was directed by Philip Kaufman, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jean-Cla
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
…Michael Henry Heim, and excerpts were published in The New Yorker. The original Czech-language text was published the following year. A feature-length film adaptation of the same title was released in 1988. In 1968, Tomáš, a gifted surgeon in Prague, lives according to a personal philosophy of “lightness”, indulging in numerous sexual…
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