L'insoutenable legerete de l'etre - Softcover

Milan Kundera is the author of the novels The Joke, Farewell Waltz, Life Is Elsewhere, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and the short-story collection Laughable Loves all originally written in Czech. His most recent novels Slowness, Identity, and Ignorance, as well as his nonfiction works The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain, and Encounter, were originally written in French.

Francois Ricard has been a professor of French literature at McGill University since 1971. His collection of essays on contemporary literature, La litterature contre elle-meme, won the Governor General's Award in Canada. His writing about the work of Milan Kundera has been published in literary periodicals in the United States, France, Italy, and Canada. Agnes's Final Afternoon, already published in France, will also appear in Great Britain, the Netherlands, and China.