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That's a pretty hilarious title. I wonder what people did for titles before Kundera's book came out? Fandorin, do you, or anyone else here, speak any Czech? If so, is "Unbearable Lightness of Being" a good translation of Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí ? I mean, does it have the same sense and feel as in English? Is it the basis for hundreds of other book titles in Czech?

Sorry Fandorin. I had it in my head that you were German and had a good background in Russian and Eastern European languages (didn't realize you were fluent).

There's a lot that I love about Kundera. I wrote one of my dissertations on him, in fact. But now he strikes me as just sort of a grumpy old man. But if there hasn't been a Czech edition of book, has the title, etc., seeped into the culture the way it has in the English speaking world? Even people who know nothing about Kundera seem familiar with the title of this book, seem to use it as a point of departure for thet titles of their own books. It's sort of like what Banksy did to Tolstoy with Wall and Piece, if you know what I mean.

Kundera's Immortality is quite good too. And he also has a very funny play entitled Jacques and His Master, which is a sort of parody / revision / postmodern take on Diderot's Jacques The Fatalist. Well worth a look.

I unfortunately have gotten myself bogged down in another long and potentially tedious book. I didn't have the will to start In Search Of Lost Time; instead I decided to go with Anthony Powell's Dance To The Music Of Time. On book two of 12 now. Supposedly more realistic and funnier than Proust, but so far it's just seeming VERY dull and slow. Woo Hoo! - another great selection. Please, when will it end?