The Unbearable Lightness of Being
A Novel (Perennial Classics)
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Word Count
80,000 words, Guess
Page Count
320 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7285084M
- ISBN-139780060932138
- ISBN-100060932139
- OCLC Control Number41093321
- OCLC Control Numberunbearablelightn00kund_697
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- LibraryThing5068
- WikidataQ50326783
- Goodreads9720
Classifications
- LCC
- DDC891.8/635
Description
Interweaves 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.
Description
A young woman obsessed with a man torn between his love for her and his womanizing; one of his mistresses and her faithful lover--these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel.
First Sentence
The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs as infinitum!
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