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In 1975, he and his wife settled in France, and in 1981, he became a French citizen. He is the author of the novels The Joke, Life is Elsewhere, Farewell Waltz, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and of the short-story collection Laughable Loves - all originally in Czech.
- Milan Kundera
It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”. ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being. tags: goals , success. 3784 likes. Like. “When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being is set against the backdrop of the Prague Spring and depicts the lives of characters Tomáš, Tereza, Sabina, and Franz. It is told in seven nonlinear parts, beginning with a philosophical discussion of Nietzsche’s concept of eternal return and Parmenides’s distinction between lightness and weight.
Franz, interpreting all the events of his life as heavy, is led to an early and unnecessary death. Lightness versus weight is the key dichotomy of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, a paradox that cannot be resolved. None of the four characters ultimately seem to find a solution. It is noteworthy that of the four, Sabina is the only one living ...
The Unbearable Lightness of Being is een Amerikaanse film van Philip Kaufman die werd uitgebracht in 1988. De film is gebaseerd op de roman De ondraaglijke lichtheid van het bestaan van de Tsjechische schrijver Milan Kundera .
When The Unbearable Lightness of Being was first published in English, it was hailed as "a work of the boldest mastery, originality, and richness" by critic Elizabeth Hardwick and named one of the best books of 1984 by the New York Times Book Review. It went on to win the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and quickly became an ...
At the center of Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being is the philosophical concept of eternal return, which assumes that everything in the universe—people, animals, events, and the like—recurs and repeats in a more or less similar fashion over infinite time and space. The theory of eternal return has been around since ...
