![]() Having spent his adolescence through the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, he later participated in the country’s liberation from the Soviet Union and contributed as a member in the Communist Party. Kundera had much of his life thrown around by political violence, and his presence in politics had been that much ambiguous. This lightness - of choice, of meaninglessness - torments the main characters in the novel. ![]() We can only go with the flow and pretend that we know what we’re doing. The first chapter introduces Nietzsche’s idea that, since life only happens once, and everything in life subsequently only happens once, it is impossible for us to predict the outcomes of different paths and choose the one that promises the best one. In the novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984,) Czech author Milan Kundera establishes a fundamental oxymoron of life: that “weight” is cruel yet bearable, while “lightness” is unbearable. “There is no perfection only life.” - Milan Kundera ![]() Author Milan Kundera’s baffling response to a politically charged 20 th-Century Czechoslovakia. ![]()
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