The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

First edition of Kundera's magnum opus. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by Milan Kundera with a drawing of an eye to Philip Roth on the half-title page, "For Philip Milan Kundera Paris." Philip Roth interviewed Milan Kundera on November 30, 1980, after reading a translated manuscript of Book of Laughter and Forgetting. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Fred Marcellino. Translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim. From the library of Philip Roth. An exceptional association, linking two of the greatest writers of the last half of the twentieth century.