KUNDERA, Milan. [Philip Roth].
The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers , 1984.
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"When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object": First Edition of The Unbearable Lightness of Being; Inscribed by Milan Kundera to fellow Writer Philip Roth with a drawing of an eye
First edition of Kundera's magnum opus. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by Milan Kundera with a drawing of an eye to Philip Roth on the half-title page, "For Philip Milan Kundera Paris." Philip Roth interviewed Milan Kundera on November 30, 1980, after reading a translated manuscript of Book of Laughter and Forgetting. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Fred Marcellino. Translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim. From the library of Philip Roth. An exceptional association, linking two of the greatest writers of the last half of the twentieth century.
When "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" was first published in English, it was hailed as "a work of the boldest mastery, originality, and richness" by critic Elizabeth Hardwick and named one of the best books of 1984 by the New York Times Book Review. It went on to win the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and quickly became an international bestseller. It was adapted to film in 1988, directed by Philip Kaufman, starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Juliette Binoche.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
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