Volume 31, Number 8 · May 10, 1984
The Game of Lights
By Janet Malcolm
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan Kundera, translated by Michael Henry Heim
Harper and Row, 314 pp., $15.95
One of the four central characters of Milan Kundera's brilliant new novel is a Czech painter named Sabina, who leaves Prague for Geneva around the time of the Russian invasion of 1968 and finds herself in a perpetual struggle against the unbearable banality of her situation as an émigré artist.
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