Readers are taken through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated by more than 200 years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the ridiculous. They provide merely a narrative framework for Kundera's novel, within which is condensed existential analysis.

A novel by the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being. A moment of confusion sets in motion a complex chain of events which crosses and recrosses the divide between fantasy and reality.

A budding poet and his adoring mother are the central characters of this early novel.

A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned 20 years earlier when they chose to become exiles. Will they manage to pick up the thread of their strange love story, interrupted as soon as it began and then lost in the tides of history?

Offering a strange sort of summation and laughter, this titles casts light on the most serious of problems and at the same time saying not one serious sentence.

A chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman who escaped him 15 years earlier. trapped between her dead husband and a son who rejects everything that is youthful in her, she has allowed herself to age almost beyond recognition. The man's assessment of her appearance is brutal.

Znamenitá a úspěšná dramatizace Diderotova Jakuba Fatalisty, hravá i krutá studie proměn lidského osudu v neprohlédnutelném světě, je jediný autorův dramatický text patřící k dílům, která má bez výhrad rád a chce vydávat.

Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins. «Nesterpna legkst' buttja» legendarnij roman odnogo z najviznachnshih pis'mennikv suchasnost Mlana Kunderi, spovnenij glibokogo sensu, z bliskuchimi ta grajlivimi rozdumami rznomantnstju stilv; ce kniga, shho nadihae zmushue zamislitisja. Tomash uspshnij hrurg, a zgodom mijnik vkon nzhno ljubit' svoju druzhinu Terezu, vtm, ne mozhe vdmovitisja vd pozashljubnih zvjazkv, jak vipravdovue vlasnoju teoreju pro bucmto rzne pohodzhennja ljubov tlesnoji j dushevnoji. Taka zhitteva flosofja primushue Terezu strazhdati vprodovzh us'ogo shljubu. Pslja...