![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Sabina starts an affair with a married man named Franz, who leaves his wife for her. ![]() Initially elated at his new “lightness of being”, Tomas realises that life without Tereza is unbearable, and follows her, relinquishing his passport to Soviet border guards. ![]() Tortured by Tomas’ infidelities, Tereza leaves him and returns to Soviet-occupied Prague. After the Russian invasion of Prague in 1968, the trio relocate to Switzerland. Which is best, the Narrator asks: lightness or weight? By way of example, the Narrator considers the story of Tomas, a womanising surgeon who falls in love with a naive young woman, Tereza, while continuing to see his mistress, the free-thinking artist Sabina. The Narrator ponders Nietschze’s theory of eternal return, pondering the paradox between the “ heaviness” of burdens that represent “ life’s most intense fulfilment” versus the “ lightness” of a life without burdens that makes existence “ insignificant“. What it’s about: Prague, Czechoslovakia, the 1960s. In which I review The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera’s celebrated 1984 novel about a philandering doctor, his unhappy wife and free-spirited mistress, set against the 1968 Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia. ![]()
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