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Kundera is an unconventional writer, to say the least. - Goodreads The prose was uninteresting. - Goodreads I recognized the font. - Goodreads The women characters are rather more interesting. - Goodreads Still, Kundera's writing is not beyond reproach. - Goodreads But the plot is really secondary. - Goodreads Review: The Unbearable Lightness of BeingUser Review - Piyush - GoodreadsIts hard to believe that the characters in the novel hadn't actually lived. Switching back-and-forth between the actual narrative and his own philosophical meanderings, the author lives his characters ... Read full review Review: The Unbearable Lightness of BeingUser Review - Yousef - GoodreadsA good novel: taut, intricately woven, intelligent, fragmented. I had to read this book for a modern culture course I'm taking, so I had to focus primarily on the concept of “kitsch” and how it ... Read full review Related books
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