Spydus Search Results - Anywhere: milan kundera (Keywords) https://hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=BSOPAC%3A%20(MILAN%20%2B%20KUNDERA)&QRYTEXT=Anywhere%3A%20milan%20kundera%20(Keywords)&SETLVL=SET&CF=GEN&SORTS=DTE.DATE1.DESC&NRECS=20 Spydus Search Results en © 2022 Civica Pty Limited. All rights reserved. A kidnapped West : the tragedy of Central Europe / Milan Kundera. https://hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3471596&CF=GEN In a moment of historic threat and uncertainty in mainland Europe, this collection, makes the case for the 'small countries' of Central Europe as the nucleus of European values and a lightning rod for its potential dangers, where language and culture play an active role in affirming national identity and democracy is under continued threat from the threat of Russian oppression. However, these countries have been historically overlooked by the major powers of Western Europe. Kundera warns that this blindness puts Europe's cultural and political independence at risk, a warning that feels increasingly relevant to our current moment. In a moment of historic threat and uncertainty in mainland Europe, this collection, makes the case for the 'small countries' of Central Europe as the nucleus of European values and a lightning rod for its potential dangers, where language and culture play an active role in affirming national identity and democracy is under continued threat from the threat of Russian oppression. However, these countries have been historically overlooked by the major powers of Western Europe. Kundera warns that this blindness puts Europe's cultural and political independence at risk, a warning that feels increasingly relevant to our current moment.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Kundera, Milan<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Faber & Faber, 2023.<br />96 pages ; 20 cm<br /><br />Fareham - (HANTS) - Adult Non-Fiction - 943 - Available - C017243931<br />Farnborough - (HANTS) - Adult Non-Fiction - 943 - Available - C017243288<br />Fleet - (HANTS) - Adult Non-Fiction - 943 - Available - C017243344<br /> The Unbearable Lightness of Being [electronic resource] : Main https://hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3527259&CF=GEN A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon - a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanising. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals - while her other lover stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and fortuitous events, and everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance and weight - and we feel 'the unbearable lightness of being'. A masterpiece by one of the world's truly great writers, Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being encompasses passion and philosophy, infidelity and ideas, the Prague Spring and modern America, political acts and private desires, comedy and tragedy - and illuminates all aspects of human existence. A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon - a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanising. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals - while her other lover stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and fortuitous events, and everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance and weight - and we feel 'the unbearable lightness of being'. A masterpiece by one of the world's truly great writers, Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being encompasses passion and philosophy, infidelity and ideas, the Prague Spring and modern America, political acts and private desires, comedy and tragedy - and illuminates all aspects of human existence.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Kundera, Milan<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[Place of publication not identified] : Faber & Faber, 2020<br />1 online resource (1 text file)<br /><br />Hampshire Digital Library - (HANTS) - EBooks - BorrowBox - eBook - eBook - Borrow this eBook - DUMMY<br /> Bezsmertya / Milan Kundera. https://hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3532807&CF=GEN Agnes, her husband Paul, her sister Laura, and a hedonist Rubens explore the themes of existence. Agnes, her husband Paul, her sister Laura, and a hedonist Rubens explore the themes of existence.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Kundera, Milan<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Lviv : Old Lion Publishing, 2020.<br />360 pages ; 21 cm<br /><br />Havant - (HANTS) - Adult Non-Fiction - 891.79 - Ukrainian - Available - C016508019<br /> Zart / Milan Kundera. https://hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3532808&CF=GEN A novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried. A novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Kundera, Milan<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Lviv : Old Lion Publishing, 2020.<br />352 pages ; 21 cm<br /><br />Alton - (HANTS) - Adult Non-Fiction - 891.79 - Ukrainian - Available - C016508018<br /> Nesterpna lehkist' buttya / Milan Kundera. https://hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3428805&CF=GEN Interweaves story and dream, past and present, and philosophy and poetry in a sardonic and erotic tale of two couples--Tomas and Teresa, and Sabina and her Swiss lover, Gerhart. Interweaves story and dream, past and present, and philosophy and poetry in a sardonic and erotic tale of two couples--Tomas and Teresa, and Sabina and her Swiss lover, Gerhart.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Kundera, Milan<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Lviv : Old Lion Publishing, 2019.<br />320 pages ; 21 cm<br /><br />Hedge End - (HANTS) - Adult Non-Fiction - 891.79 - Ukrainian - Available - C015432740<br /> The joke / Milan Kundera. https://hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2249563&CF=GEN 'The Joke', Milan Kundera's first novel, gained him a huge following in his own country and launched his worldwide literary reputation. In his foreword Kundera explains why this completely revised translation is the definitive edition of his work. 'The Joke', Milan Kundera's first novel, gained him a huge following in his own country and launched his worldwide literary reputation. In his foreword Kundera explains why this completely revised translation is the definitive edition of his work.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Kundera, Milan<br />New edition.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Faber & Faber, 2016.<br />336 pages ; 20 cm<br /><br />Stubbington - (HANTS) - Adult Fiction - Available - C016902994<br />Waterlooville - (HANTS) - Adult Fiction - Available - C016905531<br />Winchester Library - (HANTS) - Adult Fiction - Classic Fiction - Available - C016903626<br /> The festival of insignificance : a novel / Milan Kundera ; translated from the French by Linda Asher. https://hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2287015&CF=GEN Throwing light on more serious problems without pronouncing a single serious phrase, giving into the thrill of the contemporary world whilst avoiding any realism - that is 'The Festival of Insignificance'. It can be considered a synthesis of all Kundera's work. A strange synthesis. A strange epilogue. A strange laugh, inspired by our era which is comic because it has lost all sense of humour. Throwing light on more serious problems without pronouncing a single serious phrase, giving into the thrill of the contemporary world whilst avoiding any realism - that is 'The Festival of Insignificance'. It can be considered a synthesis of all Kundera's work. A strange synthesis. A strange epilogue. A strange laugh, inspired by our era which is comic because it has lost all sense of humour.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Kundera, Milan<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Faber & Faber, 2016.<br />115 pages ; 20 cm<br /><br />Basingstoke Discovery Centre - (HANTS) - Adult Fiction - FICTION - Available - C016205253<br />Bordon - (HANTS) - Adult Fiction - FICTION - Available - C016204808<br />Leigh Park - (HANTS) - Adult Fiction - FICTION - Available - C016204775<br /> The art of the novel [sound recording] / Milan Kundera ; translated from the French by Linda Asher. https://hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2108414&CF=GEN In seven independent, but closely related chapters, Milan Kundera presents his personal conception of the European novel, which he describes as 'an art born of the laughter of God'. This is a classic of literary criticism from this world famous author. In seven independent, but closely related chapters, Milan Kundera presents his personal conception of the European novel, which he describes as 'an art born of the laughter of God'. This is a classic of literary criticism from this world famous author.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Kundera, Milan<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Rearsby : Clipper Audio, 2015.<br />4 CDs (270 min.) : digital, stereo<br /><br />Havant - (HANTS) - Audiobooks : Adult Non-Fiction - 809.3 - Available - C015880576<br />Petersfield - (HANTS) - Audiobooks : Adult Non-Fiction - 809.3 - Available - C015880577<br /> The festival of insignificance : a novel / Milan Kundera ; translated from the French by Linda Asher. https://hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2126945&CF=GEN Throwing light on more serious problems without pronouncing a single serious phrase, giving into the thrill of the contemporary world whilst avoiding any realism - that is 'The Festival of Insignificance'. It can be considered a synthesis of all Kundera's work. A strange synthesis. A strange epilogue. A strange laugh, inspired by our era which is comic because it has lost all sense of humour. Throwing light on more serious problems without pronouncing a single serious phrase, giving into the thrill of the contemporary world whilst avoiding any realism - that is 'The Festival of Insignificance'. It can be considered a synthesis of all Kundera's work. A strange synthesis. A strange epilogue. A strange laugh, inspired by our era which is comic because it has lost all sense of humour.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Kundera, Milan<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Faber & Faber, 2015.<br />115 pages ; 23 cm<br /><br />Alton - (HANTS) - Adult Fiction - FICTION - Available - C016052117<br />Basingstoke Discovery Centre - (HANTS) - Adult Fiction - FICTION - Available - C016052116<br /> The curtain [sound recording] / Milan Kundera ; translated from the French by Linda Asher. https://hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2145490&CF=GEN In this entertaining and stimulating collection of seven essays, Milan Kundera deftly sketches out his personal view of the history and value of the novel. In this entertaining and stimulating collection of seven essays, Milan Kundera deftly sketches out his personal view of the history and value of the novel.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Kundera, Milan<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Rearsby : Clipper Audio, 2015.<br />4 CDs (285 min.) : digital, stereo<br /><br />Basingstoke Discovery Centre - (HANTS) - Audiobooks : Adult Non-Fiction - 809.3 - Available - C015893192<br /> Jacques and his master [sound recording] / Milan Kundera. https://hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2151731&CF=GEN Jacques, a servant, and his master talk about their past relationships and the nature of their existence. Jacques, a servant, and his master talk about their past relationships and the nature of their existence.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Kundera, Milan<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Rearsby : Clipper Audio, 2015.<br />2 CDs (105 min.) : digital, stereo<br /><br />Yateley - (HANTS) - Audiobooks : Adult Fiction - 841.9'14 - Available - C015893720<br /> The festival of insignificance [sound recording] / Milan Kundera ; translated by Linda Asher. https://hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2226811&CF=GEN Throwing light on more serious problems without pronouncing a single serious phrase, giving into the thrill of the contemporary world whilst avoiding any realism - that is 'The Festival of Insignificance'. It can be considered a synthesis of all Kundera's work. A strange synthesis. A strange epilogue. A strange laugh, inspired by our era which is comic because it has lost all sense of humour. Throwing light on more serious problems without pronouncing a single serious phrase, giving into the thrill of the contemporary world whilst avoiding any realism - that is 'The Festival of Insignificance'. It can be considered a synthesis of all Kundera's work. A strange synthesis. A strange epilogue. A strange laugh, inspired by our era which is comic because it has lost all sense of humour.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Kundera, Milan<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Rearsby : Clipper Audio, 2015.<br />2 CDs (150 min.) : digital, stereo<br /><br />Alton - (HANTS) - Audiobooks : Adult Fiction - FICTION - Available - C015906786<br />Winchester Library - (HANTS) - Audiobooks : Adult Fiction - FICTION - Available - C015906787<br /> Testaments betrayed [sound recording] / Milan Kundera ; translated by Linda Asher. https://hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2229032&CF=GEN This essay has been written like a novel. In the course of nine separate sections, the same characters meet and cross paths with each other. In the light of their wisdom this book examines the major situations of our time. This essay has been written like a novel. In the course of nine separate sections, the same characters meet and cross paths with each other. In the light of their wisdom this book examines the major situations of our time.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Kundera, Milan<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Rearsby : Clipper Audio, 2015.<br />7 CDs (465 min.) : digital, stereo<br /><br />Basingstoke Discovery Centre - (HANTS) - Audiobooks : Adult Fiction - 844.9'14 - Available - C015916350<br /> Laughable loves / Milan Kundera ; translated from the Czech by Suzanne Rappaport. https://hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=1946652&CF=GEN This collection contains stories, which are all concerned with love, or rather with the complex erotic games employed by women and especially men as they try to come to terms with needs and impulses that can start a terrifying train of events. This collection contains stories, which are all concerned with love, or rather with the complex erotic games employed by women and especially men as they try to come to terms with needs and impulses that can start a terrifying train of events.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Kundera, Milan<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Rearsby : Clipper Audio, 2014.<br />6 CDs (420 min.) : digital, stereo<br /><br />Tadley - (HANTS) - Audiobooks : Adult Fiction - FICTION - Available - C015418509<br /> Ignorance / Milan Kundera. https://hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=1987158&CF=GEN 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 almost as soon as it began and then lost in the tides of history? 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 almost as soon as it began and then lost in the tides of history?<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Kundera, Milan<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Rearsby : Clipper Audio, 2014.<br />4 CDs (255 min.) : digital, stereo<br /><br />Fareham - (HANTS) - Audiobooks : Adult Fiction - FICTION - Available - C015428981<br /> Life is elsewhere [sound recording] / Milan Kundera ; translated from the French by Aaron Asher. https://hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2049222&CF=GEN Aaron Asher's translation of Life is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera leads the reader through a young man's fantasies and love affairs in a literary tour de force which oozes wit, eroticism and ideas. Aaron Asher's translation of Life is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera leads the reader through a young man's fantasies and love affairs in a literary tour de force which oozes wit, eroticism and ideas.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Kundera, Milan<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Rearsby : Clipper Audio, 2014.<br />9 CDs (630 min.) : digital, stereo<br /><br />Andover - (HANTS) - Audiobooks : Adult Fiction - FICTION - Available - C015459015<br /> Encounter [sound recording] / Milan Kundera ; translated from the French by Linda Asher. https://hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2057521&CF=GEN With the same dazzling mix of emotion and idea that characterizes his novels, Milan Kundera illuminates the art and artists who remain important to him and whose work helps us better understand the world. With the same dazzling mix of emotion and idea that characterizes his novels, Milan Kundera illuminates the art and artists who remain important to him and whose work helps us better understand the world.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Kundera, Milan<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Rearsby : Clipper Audio, 2014.<br />4 CDs (255 min.) : digital, stereo<br /><br />Winchester Library - (HANTS) - Audiobooks : Adult Non-Fiction - 844.914 - Available - C015880081<br /> The unbearable lightness of being / Milan Kundera ; translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim. https://hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=1763549&CF=GEN In this story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities, Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of 20th century 'being'. The novel encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy, and embraces, it seems, all aspects of human existence. In this story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities, Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of 20th century 'being'. The novel encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy, and embraces, it seems, all aspects of human existence.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Kundera, Milan<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Rearsby : Clipper Audio, 2013.<br />8 CDs (585 min.) : digital, stereo.<br /><br />Aldershot - (HANTS) - Audiobooks : Adult Fiction - Available - C015048388<br /> Slowness / Milan Kundera. https://hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=1813558&CF=GEN In this book, the author of 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' leads the reader through a midsummer's night in which 2 tales of seduction, separated by more than 200 years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the ridiculous. In this book, the author of 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' leads the reader through a midsummer's night in which 2 tales of seduction, separated by more than 200 years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the ridiculous.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Kundera, Milan<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Rearsby : Clipper Audio, 2013.<br />3 CDs (210 min.) : digital, stereo<br /><br />Fleet - (HANTS) - Audiobooks : Adult Fiction - FICTION - Available - C015398567<br />Tadley - (HANTS) - Audiobooks : Adult Fiction - FICTION - Available - C015398566<br /> Identity / Milan Kundera ; translated from the French by Linda Asher. https://hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=1849186&CF=GEN In an intense and brief narrative, a moment of confusion sets in motion a complex chain of events that forces the reader to cross and recross the divide between fantasy and reality. In an intense and brief narrative, a moment of confusion sets in motion a complex chain of events that forces the reader to cross and recross the divide between fantasy and reality.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Kundera, Milan<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Rearsby : Clipper Audio, 2013.<br />3 CDs (225 min.) : digital, stereo<br /><br />Basingstoke Discovery Centre - (HANTS) - Audiobooks : Adult Fiction - Available - C015398985<br />Waterlooville - (HANTS) - Audiobooks : Adult Fiction - Available - C015398984<br /> The book of laughter and forgetting / Milan Kundera. https://hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=1872399&CF=GEN In this novel, Kundera whirls through comedy and tragedy, towards his central question: 'how does a person, any person, live today?' Towards his answer he writes of politics, sex, literature, modern man's alienation and of their antidotes. In this novel, Kundera whirls through comedy and tragedy, towards his central question: 'how does a person, any person, live today?' Towards his answer he writes of politics, sex, literature, modern man's alienation and of their antidotes.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Kundera, Milan<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Rearsby : Clipper Audio, 2013.<br />7 CDs (510 min.) : digital, stereo<br /><br />Winchester Library - (HANTS) - Audiobooks : Adult Fiction - FICTION - Available - C015409396<br /> Immortality / Milan Kundera. https://hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=1902027&CF=GEN From the author of 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being', this is a comic vision of our anxiety about immortality. From the author of 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being', this is a comic vision of our anxiety about immortality.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Kundera, Milan<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Rearsby : Clipper Audio, 2013.<br />10 CDs (720 min.) : digital, stereo<br /><br />County Store (HQZ Bar End) - (HANTS) - Audiobooks : Adult Fiction - FICTION - Available - C015409754<br /> The Unbearable Lightness of Being [electronic resource] : Main https://hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3527256&CF=GEN One of the century's most famous novels, available for the first time on audio - read by Richmond Hoxie. Milan Kundera's iconic novel of love and politics in communist Czechoslovakia is 'a dark and brilliant achievement' (Ian McEwan). 'A cult figure.' Guardian'Shamelessly clever ... Exhilaratingly subversive and funny.' Independent'A modern classic ... As relevant now as when it was first published. ' John Banville A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon - a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanising. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals - while her other lover stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and fortuitous events, and everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance and weight - and we feel 'the unbearable lightness of being'. A masterpiece by one of the world's truly great writers, Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being encompasses passion and philosophy, infidelity and ideas, the Prague Spring and modern America, political acts and private desires, comedy and tragedy - and illuminates all aspects of human existence.What readers are saying:'Some books change your mind, some change your heart, the very best change your whole world ... A mighty piece of work, that will shape your life forever.''One of the best books I've ever read ... A book about love and life, full of surprises. Beautiful.''This book is going to change your life ... It definitely leaves you with a hangover after you're done reading.''A must read - loved it, such beautiful observations on life, love and sexuality.''Kundera writes about love as if in a trance so the beauty of it is enchanting and dreamy ... Will stay with you forever.''A beautiful novel that helps you understand life better ... Loved it.' 'One of those rare novels full of depth and insight into the human condition ... Got me reading Camus and Sartre.''One of the best books I have ever read ... An intellectual love story if ever there was one.' One of the century's most famous novels, available for the first time on audio - read by Richmond Hoxie. Milan Kundera's iconic novel of love and politics in communist Czechoslovakia is 'a dark and brilliant achievement' (Ian McEwan). 'A cult figure.' Guardian'Shamelessly clever ... Exhilaratingly subversive and funny.' Independent'A modern classic ... As relevant now as when it was first published. ' John Banville A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon - a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanising. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals - while her other lover stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and fortuitous events, and everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance and weight - and we feel 'the unbearable lightness of being'. A masterpiece by one of the world's truly great writers, Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being encompasses passion and philosophy, infidelity and ideas, the Prague Spring and modern America, political acts and private desires, comedy and tragedy - and illuminates all aspects of human existence.What readers are saying:'Some books change your mind, some change your heart, the very best change your whole world ... A mighty piece of work, that will shape your life forever.''One of the best books I've ever read ... A book about love and life, full of surprises. Beautiful.''This book is going to change your life ... It definitely leaves you with a hangover after you're done reading.''A must read - loved it, such beautiful observations on life, love and sexuality.''Kundera writes about love as if in a trance so the beauty of it is enchanting and dreamy ... Will stay with you forever.''A beautiful novel that helps you understand life better ... Loved it.' 'One of those rare novels full of depth and insight into the human condition ... Got me reading Camus and Sartre.''One of the best books I have ever read ... An intellectual love story if ever there was one.'<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Kundera, Milan<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[Place of publication not identified] : Faber & Faber, 2012<br />1 online resource (1 audio file)<br /><br />Hampshire Digital Library - (HANTS) - EAudio - BorrowBox - eAudiobook - eAudiobook - Borrow this eAudiobook - DUMMY<br /> Encounter / Milan Kundera ; translated from the French by Linda Asher. https://hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=1143688&CF=GEN With the same dazzling mix of emotion and idea that characterizes his novels, Milan Kundera illuminates the art and artists who remain important to him and whose work helps us better understand the world. With the same dazzling mix of emotion and idea that characterizes his novels, Milan Kundera illuminates the art and artists who remain important to him and whose work helps us better understand the world.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Kundera, Milan<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Faber, 2010.<br />viii, 178 p. ; 20 cm.<br /><br />Winchester Library - (HANTS) - Adult Non-Fiction - 844 KUN - Available - C016478995<br /> Immortality / Milan Kundera ; translated from the Czech by Peter Kussi. https://hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=104552&CF=GEN A novel, divided into seven parts and exploring immortality. His previous works include 'The Joke', 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting' and 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being'. A novel, divided into seven parts and exploring immortality. His previous works include 'The Joke', 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting' and 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being'.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Kundera, Milan<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Faber, 1992.<br />387 p. ; 20 cm.<br /><br />Havant - (HANTS) - Adult Fiction - Available - C016803482<br />Hedge End - (HANTS) - Adult Fiction - Available - C016801901<br /> The art of the novel https://hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2591839&CF=GEN <span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Kundera,Milan<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Faber and Faber 2005<br />165<br /><br />Fleet - (HANTS) - Adult Non-Fiction - 809.3 - Onloan - Due: 07 May 2024 - C016530149<br /> Ignorance : a novel / Milan Kundera ; translated from the French by Linda Asher. https://hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=451860&CF=GEN 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. 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.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Kundera, Milan, 1929-<br />Large print ed.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Bath : Chivers, 2003.<br />168 p. ; 23 cm.<br /><br />County Store (HQZ Bar End) - (HANTS) - Adult Fiction Large Print - FICTION - Adult Fiction - Available - C013840166<br /> Life is elsewhere / Milan Kundera ; translated from the French by Aaron Asher. https://hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=109946&CF=GEN Aaron Asher's translation of Life is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera leads the reader through a young man's fantasies and love affairs in a literary tour de force which oozes wit, eroticism and ideas. Aaron Asher's translation of Life is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera leads the reader through a young man's fantasies and love affairs in a literary tour de force which oozes wit, eroticism and ideas.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Kundera, Milan, 1929-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Faber, 2000.<br />261p. ; 20 cm.<br /><br />Alton - (HANTS) - Adult Fiction - Available - C016805113<br />Winchester Library - (HANTS) - Adult Fiction - Available - C016802641<br /> Farewell waltz / Milan Kundera ; translated by Aaron Asher. https://hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=109384&CF=GEN Klima, a celebrated jazz trumpeter, receives a phone call announcing that a young nurse with whom he spent a brief night at a fertility spa is pregnant. She has decided he is the father and begins a comedy which unfolds with ever-increasing speed. Klima, a celebrated jazz trumpeter, receives a phone call announcing that a young nurse with whom he spent a brief night at a fertility spa is pregnant. She has decided he is the father and begins a comedy which unfolds with ever-increasing speed.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Kundera, Milan, 1929-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Faber, 1998.<br />278p. ; 20 cm.<br /><br />Hayling Island - (HANTS) - Adult Fiction - Available - C016803959<br /> The book of laughter and forgetting / Milan Kundera ; translated from the French by Aaron Asher. https://hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=107589&CF=GEN In this novel, Kundera whirls through comedy and tragedy, towards his central question: 'how does a person, any person, live today?'. Towards his answer he writes of politics, sex, literature, modern man's alienation and of their antidotes. In this novel, Kundera whirls through comedy and tragedy, towards his central question: 'how does a person, any person, live today?'. Towards his answer he writes of politics, sex, literature, modern man's alienation and of their antidotes.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Kundera, Milan, 1929-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Faber, 1996.<br />[vii], 312p. ; 20 cm.<br /><br />Alresford - (HANTS) - Adult Fiction - Onloan - Due: 21 May 2024 - C016915098<br />Winchester Library - (HANTS) - Adult Fiction - Onloan - Due: 10 May 2024 - C016668851<br />