书名：The Unbearable Lightness of Being米兰昆德拉：不能承受的生命之轻

作者：Milan Kundera 出版社名称：Faber & Faber 出版时间：2015 语种：英语 ISBN：9780571200832 商品尺寸：11.1 x 17.8 x 1.9cm 包装：平装 页数：320（以实物为准）The Unbearable Lightness of Being《不能承受的生命之轻》是作者米兰·昆德拉颇负盛名的作品。原著为捷克语，本版本由美国著名翻译家Michael Henry Heim翻译。小说描写了托马斯与特丽莎、萨丽娜之间的感情生活。但它不是一个男人和两个女人的三角性爱故事，它是一部哲理小说，小说从“永恒轮回”的讨论开始，把读者带入了对一系列问题的思考中，比如轻与重、灵与肉。本书适合对心理学、哲学以及英语文学感兴趣的书迷朋友阅读。

推荐理由：

1.世界经典名著，外国经典文学小说书籍；

2.捷克裔法国作家米兰·昆德拉的代表作，以反讽手法，及幽默的语调描绘人类境况；

3.英文译本用词准确，表达地道，表达风格与原版接近；

4.作品表面轻松，实质沉重；表面随意，实质精致；表面通俗，实质深邃而又机智，充满了人生智慧。

The Unbearable Lightness of Beingis a philosophical novel by Milan Kundera about two women, two men, a dog and their lives in the 1968 Prague Spring period of Czechoslovak history. It explores the artistic and intellectual life of Czech society from the Prague Spring of 1968 to the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union and three other Warsaw Pact countries and its aftermath.

“Brilliant… A work of high modernist playfulness and deep pathos.”—Janet Malcolm,New York Review of Books

“Kundera has raised the novel of ideas to a new level of dreamlike lyricism and emotional intensity.”—Jim Miller,Newsweek

“Kundera is a virtuoso… A work of the boldest mastery, originality, and richness.”—Elizabeth Hardwick,Vanity Fair

米兰·昆德拉编著的《不能承受的生命之轻》是一部长篇小说。沉重的负担压迫着我们，让我屈服于它，把我们压到地上，但在历代的爱情诗中，女人总渴望承受一个男性身体的重量。于是，沉重的负担同时也成了强盛的生命力的影像。负担越重，我们的生命越贴近大地，它就越真切实在。

相反，当负担完全缺失，人就会变得比空气还轻，就会飘起来，就会远离大地和地上的生命，人也就只是一个半真的存在，其运动也会变得自由而没有意义。

那么，到底选择什么？是重还是轻？

The Unbearable Lightness of Beingtakes place mainly in Prague in the late 1960s and early 1970s. A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover-these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. Kundera’s first sinceThe Book of Laughter and Forgetting. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence, we feel the unbearable lightness of being not only as the consequence of our private actions, but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine.

米兰·昆德拉（Milan Kundera），小说家，出生于捷克斯洛伐克布尔诺，自1975年起，在法国定居。长篇小说《玩笑》、《生活在别处》、《告别圆舞曲》、《笑忘录》、《不能承受的生命之轻》和《不朽》，以及短篇小说集《好笑的爱》是以母语捷克文写成。而他新近出版的长篇小说《慢》、《身份》和《无知》及随笔集《小说的艺术》和《被背叛的遗嘱》是以法文写成。《雅克和他的主人》系作者戏剧代表作。

Milan Kundera (born 1 April 1929) is a Czech-born writer who went into exile in France in 1975, and became a naturalised French citizen in 1981. He “sees himself as a French writer and insists his work should be studied as French literature and classified as such in book stores”.

Kundera’s best-known work is The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Prior to the Velvet Revolution of 1989 the Communist régime in Czechoslovakia banned his books. He lives virtually incognito and rarely speaks to the media. A perennial contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature, he is believed to have been nominated on several occasions.