The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
To think beyond the papers, to stretch your mind and ask yourself about all the things you thought were normal and you took for granted, thatâs what Milan Kundera does the best.
In the beginning of his novel, Kundera asks âwhat then shall we choose lightness or weight?â Kundera writes 300 pages to answer this question and only in the last pages you discover that this paradox could not be solved. Each of the characters of this novel represented either lightness or weight and at the end, none of them had the perfect life they were searching.
This book tells the story of love in time of the communist regime. Tomas and Tereza a couple with a weird beginning and absolutely a weird ending.
Tereza falls in love with Tomas, a very successful surgeon, a nice lover but a very cheating one. Even though Tereza loved Tomas but what really linked both of them wasnât the love it was the âneedâ. Tereza was lonely without him , with no family, no friends and a very modest work. In the other side Tomas was a successful man who hated responsibilities and tried to avoid them, but he wasnât able to avoid Tereza. He found her suddenly in his life and he knew that he should take care of her and thatâs exactly what he did.
Like in Ignorance Kundera spent a very large part of his book describing how the communist regime affected his country. I really liked how much this book is rich in human sentiments, I felt involved in their sufferings âitâs really unfair to see someone losing his work and his ambition just because he said something that is against the regime .â
Read excerpts from the book here!
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