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In this novel - a story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities - Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of twentieth-century ''Being'' In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. We feel, says the novelist, ''the unbearable lightness of being'' - not only as the consequence of our private acts but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine. Juxtaposing Prague, Geneva, Thailand and the United States, this masterly novel encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy, and embraces, it seems, all aspects of human existence. It offers a wide range of brilliant and amusing philosophical speculations and it descants on a variety of styles.
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Milan Kundera was born in Brno and has lived in France for over forty years. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed and bestselling novels including The Joke 1967, Life is Elsewhere 1973, The Farewell Waltz 1976, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting 1978, The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1984, Immortality 1991, and the short-story collection Laughable Loves 1969.
米兰·昆德拉,捷克裔小说家,生于捷克布尔诺市。1948年,到首都布拉格读大学。1967年,他的第一部长篇小说《玩笑》在捷克出版,获得巨大成功。曾多次获得国际文学奖,并多次被提名为诺贝尔文学奖的候选人。主要作品有《小说的艺术》、《不能承受的生命之轻》等。2010年11月15日,“2010第五届中国作家富豪榜”子榜单外国作家富豪榜首次发布,该榜统计了2000至2010十年间,外国作家在中国大陆地区的版税总收入,共有25位外国作家上榜,米兰·昆德拉以600万元人民币版税收入,荣登外国作家富豪榜第9位,引发广泛关注。
主要成就
1973年梅迪西斯外国小说奖
1985年耶路撒冷文学奖
1987年奥地利国家欧洲文学奖
2007年捷克国家文学奖
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