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100	1		_aKundera, Milan.
245	1	4	_aThe unbearable lightness of being / _cMilan Kundera ; translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim.
260			_aNew York : _bFaber and Faber, _c1984.
300			_a305 pages ; _c21 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aHarper Perennial modern classics
505	0		_aLightness and weight -- -Soul and body -- Words misunderstood -- Soul and body -- Lightness and weight -- The grand march -- Kerenin's smile.
520			_aA young woman is in love with a successful surgeon, a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals--while her other lover, earnest, faithful, and good, stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and fortuitous events, and everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence we feel ""the unbearable lightness of being.""
520			_aInterweaves story and dream, past and present, and philosophy and poetry in a sardonic and erotic tale of two couples--Tomas and Teresa, and Sabina and her Swiss lover, Gerhart.
650		0	_aSurgeons _zCzechoslovakia _vFiction.
650		7	_aMan-woman relationships -- Fiction. _2 _0
651		7	_aCzechoslovakia -- Fiction. _2 _0
700	1		_aHeim, Michael Henry.
830		0	_aHarper Perennial modern classics.
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