Editing Milan Kundera (section)

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Kundera's most famous work, ''[[The Unbearable Lightness of Being]]'', was published in 1984. The book chronicles the fragile nature of an individual's fate, theorizing that a single lifetime is insignificant in the scope of [[Nietzsche]]'s concept of [[eternal return#Friedrich Nietzsche|eternal return]]. In an infinite universe, everything is guaranteed to recur infinitely. In 1988, American director [[Philip Kaufman]] released a [[The Unbearable Lightness of Being (film)|film adaptation]], which Kundera disliked.<ref name="Duffield-2023" /> The book focuses on the life of a Czech dissident surgeon's journey from Prague to Zurich and his return to Prague, where he was not permitted to take up work as a surgeon.<ref name="Hereford Times-2023" /> He worked instead as a window washer and used his job to arrange sex with hundreds of women.<ref name="Hereford Times-2023" /> At the end he and his wife move to the country.<ref name="Hereford Times-2023" /> The book was not published in Czechoslovakia due to Kundera's fear it would be badly edited. He eventually delayed the publishing date for years and only in 2006 would an official translation be available in the Czech language.<ref name="Hereford Times-2023" /> The book had previously been available in Czech, however, as a Czech expatriate in Canada had translated the book in 1985.<ref name="Hereford Times-2023" />