THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING MILAN KUNDERA (Record no. 8004)
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| fixed length control field | 01153nam a22001457a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 0-571-13539-0 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 823 |
| Item number | KUN/U |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | KUNDERA, MILAN |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING MILAN KUNDERA |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | LONDON |
| Name of publisher | FABER & FABER |
| Year of publication | 1985 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 305 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | The Unbearable Lightness of Being opens with a philosophical discussion of lightness versus heaviness. Kundera contrasts Nietzsche's philosophy of eternal return, or of heaviness, with Parmenides's understanding of life as light. Kundera wonders if any meaning or weight can be attributed to life, since there is no eternal return: if man only has the opportunity to try one path, to make one decision, he cannot return to take a different path, and then compare the two lives. Without the ability to co mpare lives, Kundera argues, we cannot find meaning; where meaning should exist we find only an unbearable weightlessness. The uncertain existence of meaning, and the opposition of lightness and heaviness, the key dichotomy of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, sets the stage for the entire novel. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | ENGLISH NOVEL |
| Geographic subdivision | UNITED KINGDOM |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Fiction | Main Library | Main Library | NEW SHELF WITH NEW ENTRY | 22/12/2023 | purchase | 499.00 | 823 KUN/U | 13528 | Books |