KUNDERA, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Trans. from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim. London: Faber and Faber. 1984. 8vo. First British edition, first printing. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket after an illustration by Russell Mills. A very good or better copy, the cloth just a trifle marked and pushed around the spine head, the binding tight and square. The contents clean and fine throughout, with small and unobtrusive crease to centre of the front endpaper. The dust jacket price-clipped, the spine panel marginally faded, with a little crimping at extremities, but pleasing overall.
A mainstay of many a modern literature list, commercially and critically acclaimed. The novel follows the lives of several lovers in the Prague Spring of 1968, each individualised by their own sense of philosophical ‘lightness of being’. The term is first recalled in Constance Garnett’s translation of Tolstoy’s War and Peace. An excellent copy of the first British edition.
KUNDERA, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Trans. from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim. London: Faber and Faber. 1984. 8vo. First British edition, first printing. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket after an illustration by Russell Mills. A very good or better copy, the cloth just a trifle marked and pushed around the spine head, the binding tight and square. The contents clean and fine throughout, with small and unobtrusive crease to centre of the front endpaper. The dust jacket price-clipped, the spine panel marginally faded, with a little crimping at extremities, but pleasing overall.
A mainstay of many a modern literature list, commercially and critically acclaimed. The novel follows the lives of several lovers in the Prague Spring of 1968, each individualised by their own sense of philosophical ‘lightness of being’. The term is first recalled in Constance Garnett’s translation of Tolstoy’s War and Peace. An excellent copy of the first British edition.
