Fiction
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera's 1984 novel is set in Prague around the Soviet invasion, and it moves between a surgeon, his wife, his mistress, and a dog named Karenin through sex, exile, and the problem of repetition. The philosophical interludes are the point, not interruptions: Kundera wants to know whether a life that cannot be repeated has any weight at all. The answer he gives is less comforting than the title suggests, and the politics are never merely backdrop.Harper & Row's edition, translated by Michael Henry Heim, presents the novel in the compact paperback format that made it a fixture of college dorm rooms. Karenin the dog may be the only creature in the book who knows what she wants. It is a book that is easier to quote than to settle.
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